Quantifying the Importance of Abiotic and Biotic Factors Governing the Succession of Gut Microbiota Over Shrimp Ontogeny.

ABSTRACT: Intensive studies have evaluated abiotic factors in shaping host gut microbiota. In contrast, little is known on how and to what extent abiotic (geochemical variables) and biotic (i.e., surrounding microbes, younger shrimp, and age) factors assemble the gut microbiota over shrimp ontogeny. Considering the functional importance of gut microbiota in improving host fitness, this knowledge is fundamental to sustain a desirable gut microbiota for a healthy aquaculture. Here, we characterized the successional rules of both the shrimp gut and rearing water bacterial communities over the entire shrimp farming. Both the gut and rearing water bacterial communities exhibited the time decay of similarity relationship, with significantly lower temporal turnover rate for the gut microbiota, which were p

SUBMITTER: Zhang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8531273 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature