Next generation sequencing shows high variation of the intestinal microbial species composition in Atlantic cod caught at a single location.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The observation that specific members of the microbial intestinal community can be shared among vertebrate hosts has promoted the concept of a core microbiota whose composition is determined by host-specific selection. Most studies investigating this concept in individual hosts have focused on mammals, yet the diversity of fish lineages provides unique comparative opportunities from an evolutionary, immunological and environmental perspective. Here we describe microbial intestinal communities of eleven individual Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) caught at a single location based on an extensively 454 sequenced 16S rRNA library of the V3 region.

Results

We obtained a total of 280447 sequences and identify 573 Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) at 97% sequence similarity

SUBMITTER: Star B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3840566 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature