Environmental and physiological factors shape the gut microbiota of Atlantic salmon parr (Salmo salar L.).

ABSTRACT: Gut microbes are key players in host immune system priming, protection and development, as well as providing nutrients to the host that would be otherwise unavailable. Due to this importance, studies investigating the link between host and microbe are being initiated in farmed fish. The establishment, maintenance and subsequent changes of the intestinal microbiota are central to define fish physiology and nutrition in the future. In fish, unlike mammals, acquiring intestinal microbes is believed to occur around the time of first feeding mainly from the water surrounding them and their microbial composition over time is shaped therefore by their habitat. Here we compare the distal intestine microbiota of Atlantic salmon parr reared in a recirculating laboratory aquarium with that of age mat

SUBMITTER: Dehler CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5142738 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature