Rocky Shore: Rays

Transfer of maternal microbiota

Por: Prof. Dr. Marcelo Vianna (Laboratório de Biologia e Tecnologia Pesqueira – UFRJ) Profa Dra Raquel S. Peixoto e Prof. Dr. Alexandre Rosado (Laboratório de Ecologia Microbiana Molecular – UFRJ).

New research with rays and sharks in order to identify if there is in the elasmobranchs the transference of the maternal microbiota, that is, the bacteria that inhabit the living being, to the pups, as it occurs in mammals, or if the microbiota is acquired after birth.