Correlation Between Microbial Community and Hatching Failure in Loggerhead Sea Turtle Caretta caretta.

ABSTRACT: Microbial communities provide essential information about host ecology and could be helpful as a tool to improve species conservation efforts. However, microbes can also infect and compromise the host development process and viability. Caretta caretta is the most widespread marine turtle species in the Mediterranean basin and is the only species of sea turtle nesting along the Italian coasts. Little is known about the microbiota composition of the nest of sea turtles and its correlation with hatching failures. In this study, the microbial composition of two nests of C. caretta featuring different rates of hatching success from a nesting beach in Lampedusa (Italy) was analyzed and compared. The bacterial community was determined using culture-dependent methods and next-generation sequencing

SUBMITTER: Capri FC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10497424 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature