Dynamics of bacterial and fungal communities associated with eggshells during incubation

Comparison of a culture-based and a PCR-based methods for estimating bacterial abundance on eggshells, with comments on statistical analyses

(2013) Won Young Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY

Early Onset of Incubation and Eggshell Bacterial Loads in a Temperate-Zone Cavity-Nesting Passerine

(2012)   CONDOR

Effects of Nest Reuse and Onset of Incubation on Microbial Growth and Viability of Wood Duck Eggs

(2012) Johnathan G. Walls et al.   CONDOR

Niche dimensionality links biodiversity and invasibility of microbial communities

(2012) Nico Eisenhauer et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The evolution of size of the uropygial gland: mutualistic feather mites and uropygial secretion reduce bacterial loads of eggshells and hatching failures of European birds

(2012) J. J. Soler et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Enterococci in the Environment

(2012) Muruleedhara N. Byappanahalli et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Immune Indexes of Larks from Desert and Temperate Regions Show Weak Associations with Life History but Stronger Links to Environmental Variation in Microbial Abundance

(2012) Nicholas P. C. Horrocks et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY

Spatial and Temporal Variation of Archaeal, Bacterial and Fungal Communities in Agricultural Soils

(2012) Michele C. Pereira e Silva et al.   PLoS One

Recovery of Salmonella from eggshell wash, eggshell crush, and egg internal contents of unwashed commercial shell eggs in Australia

(2012) K. K. Chousalkar et al.   POULTRY SCIENCE

Yeast microbiota of raptors: a possible tool for environmental monitoring

(2012) Raimunda S. N. Brilhante et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Drying eggs to inhibit bacteria: Incubation during laying in a cavity nesting passerine

(2011) R. Ruiz-De-Castañeda et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Bacterial Loads on Eggshells of the Pied Flycatcher: Environmental and Maternal Factors

(2011) R. Ruiz-de-Castañeda et al.   CONDOR

Microbial and environmental effects on avian egg viability: Do tropical mechanisms act in a temperate environment?

(2011) Jennifer M. Wang et al.   ECOLOGY

Prevalence of potentially pathogenic culturable bacteria on eggshells and in cloacae of female Pied Flycatchers in a temperate habitat in central Spain

(2011) Rafael Ruiz-de-Castañeda et al.   JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY

Differences in Culturable Microbial Communities in Bird Nestboxes According to Orientation and Influences on Offspring Quality in Great Tits (Parus major)

(2011) Anne E. Goodenough et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Microscopic fungi in eggs of ring-necked pheasants kept in aviaries

(2011) S. Nowaczewski et al.   POULTRY SCIENCE

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SHELL SWAB AND SHELL CRUSH METHODS FOR THE RECOVERY OF SALMONELLA FROM SHELL EGGS

(2010) T. KAWASAKI et al.   JOURNAL OF FOOD SAFETY

DNA sampling from eggshell swabbing is widely applicable in wild bird populations as demonstrated in 23 species

(2010) DAVID MARTÍN-GÁLVEZ et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Experimental evidence that keeping eggs dry is a mechanism for the antimicrobial effects of avian incubation

(2010) Liliana D’Alba et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Ergosterol as an indicator of the presence of microscopic fungi in eggs for human consumption produced in different husbandry systems

(2010) T. Szablewski et al.   POULTRY SCIENCE

Chelex-based DNA isolation procedure for the identification of microbial communities of eggshell surfaces

(2009) Antonio Manuel Martín-Platero et al.   ANALYTICAL BIOCHEMISTRY

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Timing is everything: the regulation of type III secretion

(2009) Janet E. Deane et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Number and colour composition of nest lining feathers predict eggshell bacterial community in barn swallow nests: an experimental study

(2009) Juan M. Peralta-Sanchez et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Intraspecific Variation and Interspecific Differences in the Bacterial and Fungal Assemblages of Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) and Great Tit (Parus major) Nests

(2009) Anne E. Goodenough et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Keratinophilic fungi on feathers of common clinically healthy birds in Bahrain

(2009) Qaher Mandeel et al.   MYCOSES

Avian Incubation Inhibits Growth and Diversification of Bacterial Assemblages on Eggs

(2009) Matthew D. Shawkey et al.   PLoS One

Analysis of Bacterial Communities in Soil by Use of Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis and Clone Libraries, as Influenced by Different Reverse Primers

(2008) J. K. Brons et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Eggshell structure, mode of development and growth rate in birds

(2008) Ola Karlsson et al.   ZOOLOGY