Environmental Temperatures Affect the Gastrointestinal Microbes of the Chinese Giant Salamander.

ABSTRACT: An increasing number of studies have shown that warming also influences the animal gut microbiome (altering the community structure and decreasing its diversity), which might further impact host fitness. Here, based on an analysis of the stomach and gut (the entire intestine: from the anterior intestine to the cloaca) microbiome in laboratory larva of giant salamanders (Andrias davidianus) under different living water temperatures (5, 15, and 25°C) at two sample time points (80 and 330 days after the acclimation), we investigated the potential effect of temperature on the gastrointestinal microbiome community. We found the significant Interaction between sampling time and temperature, or type (stomach and gut) on Shannon index in the gastrointestinal microbiome of the giant salamand

SUBMITTER: Zhu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8017128 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature