Evidence for host effect on the intestinal microbiota of whitefish (Coregonus sp.) species pairs and their hybrids.

ABSTRACT: Investigating relationships between microbiota and their host is essential toward a full understanding of how animal adapt to their environment. Lake Whitefish offers a powerful system to investigate processes of adaptive divergence where the dwarf, limnetic species evolved repeatedly from the normal, benthic species. We compared the transient intestinal microbiota between both species from the wild and in controlled conditions, including their reciprocal hybrids. We sequenced the 16s rRNA gene V3-V4 regions to (a) test for parallelism in the transient intestinal microbiota among sympatric pairs, (b) test for transient intestinal microbiota differences among dwarf, normal, and hybrids reared under identical conditions, and (c) compare intestinal microbiota between wild and captive whitefis

SUBMITTER: Sevellec M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6822036 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature