Assessment of various standard fish diets on gut microbiome of platyfish Xiphophorus maculatus.

ABSTRACT: Diet is an external factor that affects the physiological baseline of research animals. It can shape gut microbiome, which can impact the host. As a result, dietary variation can challenge experimental reproducibility and data integration across studies when not appropriately considered. To control for diet-induced variation, reference diets have been developed for common biomedical models. However, such reference diets have not yet been developed for nontraditional model organisms, such as Xiphophorus species. In this study, we compared two diets designed for zebrafish, a commercial zebrafish diet (Gemma and GEM), and a proposed zebrafish reference diet developed by the Watts laboratory at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (WAT) to the Xiphophorus Genetic Stock Center custom diet (C

SUBMITTER: Soria E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10962282 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature