Bacterial Diversity Associated with Terrestrial and Aquatic Snails.

ABSTRACT: The introduction of the holobiont concept has triggered scientific interest in depicting the structural and functional diversity of animal microbial symbionts, which has resulted in an unprecedented wealth of such cross-domain biological associations. The steadfast technological progress in nucleic acid-based approaches would cause one to expect that scientific works on the microbial symbionts of animals would be balanced at least for the farmed animals of human interest. For some animals, such as ruminants and a few farmed fish species of financial significance, the scientific wealth of the microbial worlds they host is immense and ever growing. The opposite happens for other animals, such as snails, in both the wild and farmed species. Snails are evolutionary old animals, with complex ec

SUBMITTER: Apostolou K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11767905 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature