Shell-disease prevalence and bacteriome associations in threatened Northwestern Pond Turtles (Emys/Actinemys marmorata)

We obtained swabs and tissue from the shells and shell lesions, and used these samples to characterize the bacterial communities using 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing

我们从贝壳及其外壳病灶处采集拭子与组织样本，并利用16S rRNA扩增子测序技术对这些样本中的细菌群落进行特征表征分析。