Effect of glyphosate, its metabolite AMPA, and the glyphosate formulation Roundup^® on brown trout (Salmo trutta f. fario) gut microbiome diversity.

ABSTRACT: Glyphosate is used worldwide as a compound of pesticides and is detectable in many environmental compartments. It enters water bodies primarily through drift from agricultural areas so that aquatic organisms are exposed to this chemical, especially after rain events. Glyphosate is advertised and sold as a highly specific herbicide, which interacts with the EPSP synthase, an enzyme of the shikimate metabolism, resulting in inhibition of the synthesis of vital aromatic amino acids. However, not only plants but also bacteria can possess this enzyme so that influences of glyphosate on the microbiomes of exposed organisms cannot be excluded. Those influences may result in subtle and long-term effects, e.g., disturbance of the symbiotic interactions of bionts with microorganisms of their microbi

SUBMITTER: Hembach N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10829098 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature