Enterococcus faecium are associated with the modification of gut microbiota and shrimp post-larvae survival.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Probiotics are widely used to promote host health. Compared to mammals and terrestrial invertebrates, little is known the role of probiotics in aquatic invertebrates. In this study, eighteen tanks with eight hundred of shrimp post-larvae individuals each were randomly grouped into three groups, one is shrimps administered with E. faecium as probiotic (Tre) and others are shrimps without probiotic-treatment (CK1: blank control, CK2: medium control). We investigated the correlations between a kind of commercial Enterococcus faecium (E. faecium) powder and microbiota composition with function potentials in shrimp post-larvae gut.

Results

We sequenced the 16S rRNA gene (V4) of gut samples to assess diversity and composition of the shrimp gut microbiome and used differ

SUBMITTER: Du S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8710032 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature