Echidna microbiome changes while mums nurse their puggles

A hatched echidna puggle that will rub its beak against a part of its mother’s pseudo-pouch called the milk patch to receive nutrients. (Picture: Peggy Rismiller and Michael McKelvey)

Research from the University of Adelaide shows microbial communities in echidna pseudo-pouches undergo dramatic changes while the animal is lactating, […]

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