This study provides basic reference data for investigations of the gut microbiota community structure of wild birds and deepens our understanding of the dynamics of the gut microflora during raptor de
Bats (Chiroptera: Mammalia) are an ecologically and evolutionarily diversified group with an unexplored skin microbiome. The bat skin microbiome could play a role in disease resistance, for example to
Nitriles are organic molecules with –C≡N as functional group and often toxic for living organisms. Detoxification can occur via nitrilases that degrade nitriles directly to carboxylic acids and ammoni