Environmental plasticity and colonisation history in the Atlantic salmon microbiome: A translocation experiment.

ABSTRACT: Microbial communities associated with the gut and the skin are strongly influenced by environmental factors, and can rapidly adapt to change. Historical processes may also affect the microbiome. In particular, variation in microbial colonisation in early life has the potential to induce lasting effects on microbial assemblages. However, little is known about the relative extent of microbiome plasticity or the importance of historical colonisation effects following environmental change, especially for nonmammalian species. To investigate this we performed a reciprocal translocation of Atlantic salmon between artificial and semi-natural conditions. Wild and hatchery-reared fry were transferred to three common garden experimental environments for 6 weeks: standard hatchery conditions, hatcher

SUBMITTER: Uren Webster TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7078932 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature