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Preliminary Examination Of The Bacterial Diversity Harbored By The Pill Bug (Armadillidium Vulgare), Sondos Alhajouj Dec 2016

Preliminary Examination Of The Bacterial Diversity Harbored By The Pill Bug (Armadillidium Vulgare), Sondos Alhajouj

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Pill bugs (Armadillidium vulgare) were examined at 4 time points during 2015- 2016. The time points corresponded to summer, fall, winter, and spring. At each time point, 2 to 10 pill bugs were collected from each of three sites. All sites were located in San Antonio, Texas. The first site was in central San Antonio, but due to difficulties in collecting specimens the first site was only utilized at the first time point. The remaining localities, Bonilla Science Hall on the campus of the University of the Incarnate Word and a private residence in northwest San Antonio, were …