Gut microbiota metabolically mediate intestinal helminth infection in Zebrafish.

ABSTRACT: Intestinal helminth parasite (IHP) infection induces alterations in the composition of microbial communities across vertebrates, although how gut microbiota may facilitate or hinder parasite infection remains poorly defined. In this work we utilized a zebrafish model to investigate the relationship between gut microbiota, gut metabolites, and IHP infection. We found that extreme disparity in zebrafish parasite infection burden is linked to the composition of the gut microbiome, and that changes in the gut microbiome are associated with variation in a class of endogenously-produced signaling compounds, N-acylethanolamines, that are known to be involved in parasite infection. Using a statistical mediation analysis, we uncovered a set of gut microbes whose relative abundance explains the asso

SUBMITTER: Hammer AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11291147 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature