Structure and membership of gut microbial communities in multiple fish cryptic species under potential migratory effects.

ABSTRACT: The animal gut microbiota evolves quickly towards a complex community and plays crucial roles in its host's health and development. Factors such as host genetics and environmental changes are regarded as important for controlling the dynamics of animal gut microbiota. Migratory animals are an important group for studying how these factors influence gut microbiota because they experience strong environmental perturbations during migration. The commercially important grey mullet, Mugil cephalus, is a cosmopolitan species complex that display reproductive migration behaviour. There are three cryptic species of M. cephalus fish distributed across the Northwest Pacific, and their spawning sites overlap in the Taiwan Strait. This extraordinary natural occurrence makes the grey mullet an ideal mo

SUBMITTER: Le MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7200715 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature