The impact of aquaculture system on the microbiome and gut metabolome of juvenile Chinese softshell turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis).

ABSTRACT: The commercial aquatic animal microbiome may markedly affect the successful host's farming in various aquaculture systems. However, very little was known about it. Here, two different aquaculture systems, the rice-fish culture (RFC) and intensive pond culture (IPC) systems, were compared to deconstruct the skin, oral, and gut microbiome, as well as the gut metabolome of juvenile Chinese softshell turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis). Higher alpha-diversity and functional redundancy of P. sinensis microbial community were found in the RFC than those of the IPC. The aquaculture systems have the strongest influence on the gut microbiome, followed by the skin microbiome, and finally the oral microbiome. Source-tracking analysis showed that the RFC's microbial community originated from mo

SUBMITTER: Ding X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10989827 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature