Environmental factors shape cloacal bacterial assemblages in great tit Parus major and blue tit P. caeruleus nestlings

By F. Lucas, P. Heeb. 2005

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Access to mutualistic endosymbiotic microbes: an underappreciated benefit of group living (2008, background): “Nestlings may passively acquire endosymbionts shed by their nest mates or parents while in the nest (Mills et al. 1999; Lucas and Heeb 2005).”
BIRD ODORS AND OTHER CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES: A DEFENSE MECHANISM OR OVERLOOKED MODE OF INTRASPECIFIC COMMUNICATION? (2007, background): “Birds also host a diversity of avian microbes on feathers and skin (Burtt and Ichida 1999, Muza et al. 2000, Lucas and Heeb 2005, Shawkey et al. 2005), which may be involved in the production or degradation of chemical substances.”
Antibiotic-Producing Bacteria as a Possible Defence of Birds against Pathogenic Microorganisms (2010, background): “The environmental component of intestinal bacterial community in wild birds has also been demonstrated by means of interspecific cross-fostering experiments of nestlings [30, 31] and by comparing the cloacal microbial community of adults from different locations [32].”
Worlds within worlds: evolution of the vertebrate gut microbiota (2008, background): “, and similarly, the early environment, which is dominated by the microbiota of the parent under natural conditions, strongly influences the cloacal microbiota of chicks in two species of song-bir”