{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Wu DG"],"funding":["W. M. Keck Foundation","W. M. Keck Foundation (WMKF)","NIH HHS","NIGMS NIH HHS","Midlin Foundation"],"pagination":["e0222924"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11837501"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["91(2)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Fish gut microbial communities are important for the breakdown and energy harvesting of the host diet. Microbes within the fish gut are selected by environmental and evolutionary factors. To understand how fish gut microbial communities are shaped by diet, three tropical fish species (hawkfish, <i>Paracirrhites arcatus</i>; yellow tang, <i>Zebrasoma flavescens</i>; and triggerfish, <i>Rhinecanthus aculeatus</i>) were fed piscivorous (fish meal pellets), herbivorous (seaweed), and invertivorous (shrimp) diets, respectively. From fecal samples, a total of 43 metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs) were recovered from all fish diet treatments. Each host-diet treatment harbored distinct microbial communities based on taxonomy, with <i>Proteobacteria</i>, <i>Bacteroidota</i>, and <i>Firmicutes</i> "],"journal":["Applied and environmental microbiology"],"pubmed_title":["Comparative metagenomics of tropical reef fishes show conserved core gut functions across hosts and diets with diet-related functional gene enrichments."],"pmcid":["PMC11837501"],"funding_grant_id":["P20 GM103446","S10 OD028725"],"pubmed_authors":["Harris CR","Bowen M","Biddle JF","Wu DG","Farag IF","Kalis KM"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Comparative metagenomics of tropical reef fishes show conserved core gut functions across hosts and diets with diet-related functional gene enrichments.","description":"Fish gut microbial communities are important for the breakdown and energy harvesting of the host diet. Microbes within the fish gut are selected by environmental and evolutionary factors. To understand how fish gut microbial communities are shaped by diet, three tropical fish species (hawkfish, <i>Paracirrhites arcatus</i>; yellow tang, <i>Zebrasoma flavescens</i>; and triggerfish, <i>Rhinecanthus aculeatus</i>) were fed piscivorous (fish meal pellets), herbivorous (seaweed), and invertivorous (shrimp) diets, respectively. From fecal samples, a total of 43 metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs) were recovered from all fish diet treatments. Each host-diet treatment harbored distinct microbial communities based on taxonomy, with <i>Proteobacteria</i>, <i>Bacteroidota</i>, and <i>Firmicutes</i> ","dates":{"release":"2025-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2025 Feb","modification":"2026-06-03T04:48:43.681Z","creation":"2025-07-11T03:04:01.906Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC11837501","cross_references":{"pubmed":["39840973"],"doi":["10.1128/aem.02229-24"]}}