Koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) are iconic Australian marsupials currently threatened by several processes, including infectious diseases and ecological disruption. Infection with Chlamydia pecorum, i
Animal rehabilitation centres provide a unique opportunity to study the microbiome of wild animals as subjects can be sampled longitudinally. Rehabilitation may have unintended consequences on the ani
Emerging infectious diseases are a serious threat to wildlife populations, and there is growing evidence that host microbiomes play important roles in infection dynamics, possibly even mitigating dise
The goal of this BioProject is to describe bacterial communities with 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing of interdigital skin from abnormal and normal hooves collected from free-ranging elk (Cervus can