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Fig. 1 | Animal Microbiome

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From: No evidence for associations between brood size, gut microbiome diversity and survival in great tit (Parus major) nestlings

Fig. 1

Brood size manipulation experiment schematic diagram. 2-day-old nestlings were moved between nestboxes to enlarge or to reduce original brood size (an example with brood size of seven is given). Some nests were kept as control nests (nestlings were moved but brood size remained the same) and some were kept as unmanipulated control nests (nestlings were not moved at all to test whether early-life handling affects gut microbiome). The original brood size varied between nests

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Animal Microbiome

ISSN: 2524-4671