Keystone active bacterial lineages associated with Penaeus stylirostris shrimp health across larvae stages.

ABSTRACT: The Pacific blue shrimp, Penaeus stylirostris, reared in New Caledonia, is economically important for the territory. However, since 2005, this sector has been facing huge larval mortalities occurring at all larval stages in hatcheries and for which no causes have yet been found. Microbial dysbiosis of the larvae are suspected as factors leading to larval death. To test this hypothesis, we monitored daily the larval health based on their survival rate and developmental stage and explored the active microbiota of the larvae by sequencing the V4 region of the 16S rRNA sequence. Richness proxies exhibited lower values in the unhealthy (high mortality rate) larval microbiota compared to the healthy one, highlighting a loss of microbial diversity in the unhealthy larvae. Venn diagram comparisons

SUBMITTER: Callac N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12571323 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature