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Samantha Fontaine
@samanthafontaine.bsky.social
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Frog lady 🐸 NSF Postdoc fellow @ Kent State studying host microbiome interactions in ectotherms 🦠🦎
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Samantha Fontaine @samanthafontaine.bsky.social · May 26
SO excited to share my work w/ @kevindkohl.bsky.social and collabs on the gut microbiome of fluid preserved hosts! Species-specific microbiomes were retained despite preservation across vertebrates 🫙🐟🐸🐍🐀I hope this will increase use of valuable museum specimens in research!
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The Impact of Whole‐Animal Fluid Preservation on the Observed Gut Microbiome of Vertebrates: Implications for the Use of Museum Specimens in Microbiome Research
The vertebrate gut houses diverse microbial communities that provide insights into their host's ecological and evolutionary histories. Nevertheless, microbiome research has not been distributed equal....
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