The variation profile of intestinal microbiota in blunt snout bream (Megalobrama amblycephala) during feeding habit transition.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The blunt snout bream (Megalobrama amblycephala) is one of the most important commercial herbivorous fish in China, and dietary transition is an important event in blunt snout bream development. Gut microbiota has a vital role to host animal. However, little was known about the relationship among feeding habits transition, gut microbiota and digestive enzymes of gut content.

Results

In this study, 186,328 high-quality reads from nine 16S rRNA libraries were obtained using the Illumina MiSeq PE300 platform. The valid sequences were classified into 388 Operational Taxonomic Units, and a total of 223 genera, belonging to 20 phyla, were identified. The clustering result of gut bacterial communities is consistently related to the clustering result of intestinal content

SUBMITTER: Wei J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6122550 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature