A meta-analysis reveals the environmental and host factors shaping the structure and function of the shrimp microbiota.

ABSTRACT: The shrimp or prawn is the most valuable traded marine product in the world market today and its microbiota plays an essential role in its development, physiology, and health. The technological advances and dropping costs of high-throughput sequencing have increased the number of studies characterizing the shrimp microbiota. However, the application of different experimental and bioinformatics protocols makes it difficult to compare different studies to reach general conclusions about shrimp microbiota. To meet this necessity, we report the first meta-analysis of the microbiota from freshwater and marine shrimps using all publically available sequences of the 16S ribosomal gene (16S rRNA gene). We obtained data for 199 samples, in which 63.3% were from marine (Alvinocaris longirostris</

SUBMITTER: Cornejo-Granados F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6089209 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature