Antibiotic effect and microbiome persistence vary along the European seabass gut.

ABSTRACT: The constant increase in aquaculture production has led to extensive use of antibiotics as a means to prevent and treat diseases, with adverse implications on the environment, animal health and commensal microbes. Gut microbes are important for the host proper functioning, thus evaluating such impacts is highly crucial. Examining the antibiotic impact on gut segments with different physiological roles may provide insight into their effects on these microhabitats. Hence, we evaluated the effect of feed-administrated antibiotics on the composition and metabolic potential of the gut microbiome in the European seabass, an economically important aquaculture species. We used quantitative PCR to measure bacterial copy numbers, and amplicon sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene to describe the compositi

SUBMITTER: Kokou F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7305304 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature