Characterizing the cirri and gut microbiomes of the intertidal barnacle Semibalanus balanoides.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Natural populations inhabiting the rocky intertidal experience multiple ecological stressors and provide an opportunity to investigate how environmental differences influence microbiomes over small geographical scales. However, very few microbiome studies focus on animals that inhabit the intertidal. In this study, we investigate the microbiome of the intertidal barnacle Semibalanus balanoides. We first describe the microbiome of two body tissues: the feeding appendages, or cirri, and the gut. Next, we examine whether there are differences between the microbiome of each body tissue of barnacles collected from the thermally extreme microhabitats of the rocky shores' upper and lower tidal zones.

Results

Overall, the microbiome of S. balanoides consisted of 18 phyla

SUBMITTER: Brown BRP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7807441 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature