Ecology of sleeping: the microbial and arthropod associates of chimpanzee beds

@article{Thoemmes2018EcologyOS,
  title={Ecology of sleeping: the microbial and arthropod associates of chimpanzee beds},
  author={Megan S. Thoemmes and Fiona A. Stewart and Fiona A. Stewart and R. Adriana Hernandez‐Aguilar and Matthew A. Bertone and David A. Baltzegar and Russell J Borski and Naomi Cohen and Kaitlin P. Coyle and Alexander K Piel and Robert R. Dunn and Robert R. Dunn},
  journal={Royal Society Open Science},
  year={2018},
  volume={5},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:47016918}
}
The results suggest that the life to which chimpanzees are exposed while in their beds is predominately the same as that of the surrounding environment.
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