Assessing similarities and disparities in the skin microbiota between wild and laboratory populations of house mice
To gain critical knowledge on the microbial communities inhabiting the ear skin of wild house mouse, we analyzed 203 M. m. domesticus individuals coming from 34 distinct locations around the southwestern French commune of Espelette. Further, we recently determined that community profiling based on 16S rRNA gene transcripts may better reflect true residents and underlying […] More