Lactobacillus Dominate in the Intestine of Atlantic Salmon Fed Dietary Probiotics.

ABSTRACT: Probiotics, the live microbial strains incorporated as dietary supplements, are known to provide health benefits to the host. These live microbes manipulate the gut microbial community by suppressing the growth of certain intestinal microbes while enhancing the establishment of some others. Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) have been widely studied as probiotics; in this study we have elucidated the effects of two fish-derived LAB types (RII and RIII) on the distal intestinal microbial communities of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). We employed high-throughput 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing to investigate the bacterial communities in the distal intestinal content and mucus of Atlantic salmon fed diets coated with the LABs or that did not have microbes included in it. Our results show that

SUBMITTER: Gupta S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6343587 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature