Symbiotic association between hoopoes and antibiotic- producing bacteria that live in their uropygial gland

By J. Soler, M. Martín‐Vivaldi, M. Ruiz‐Rodríguez, E. Valdivia, A. Martín-Platero, M. Martínez-Bueno, J. Peralta‐Sánchez, María Méndez. 2008

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Antibiotic-Producing Bacteria as a Possible Defence of Birds against Pathogenic Microorganisms (2010, background): “The first one is that brown but not white secretions contained bacteria and showed antimicrobial activity against Bacillus licheniformis [16].”
Number and colour composition of nest lining feathers predict eggshell bacterial community in barn swallow nests: an experimental study (2010, background): “Moreover, birds prevent nest feather contamination of microorganisms by preening (Shawkey, Pillai & Hill 2003; Soler et al. 2008), but nest lining feathers are unprotected, which predicts an even larger bacterial load of nest lining feathers in comparison with active feathers on birds.”
Bacterial communities in meerkat anal scent secretions vary with host sex, age, and group membership (2014, background): “teria are found in animal glandular secretions (Albone et al. 1974; Soler et al. 2008; Theis et al. 2013), their influence on their host’s scent cues has long been suggested (Gorman et al.”
Seasonal, sexual and developmental differences in hoopoe Upupa epops preen gland morphology and secretions: evidence for a role of bacteria (2009, background): “Recently different species of enteroccoci have been isolated from the gland of the European hoopoe Upupa epops (Martı́n-Platero et al. 2006; Soler et al. 2008) from the gland of a European hoopoe nestling.”