Abstract:We report here 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequence analysis of the gut microbiota in three species of deep-sea fish collected from Suruga Bay, Japan. Of the three species, two were dominated by the phylum Proteobacteria (genus Photobacterium), while one was dominated by the phyla Spirochaetes (genus Brevinema) and Tenericutes (unclassified Mycoplasmataceae).
“…The dominance of Aeromonas in the gut microbiota suggested that Gymnocypris przewalskii fish were plagued by such pathogens. The findings for other genera and species were similar to the findings of previous studies on the gut microbiota of fishes ( 9 ).…”
Naked carp (
Gymnocypris przewalskii
) is a second-grade animal under state protection of China. We report 16S rRNA gene amplicon analysis of the gut microbiota of
Gymnocypris przewalskii
. The three most abundant phyla are
Tenericutes
,
Proteobacteria
, and
Fusobacteria
, and the six most abundant genera are
Aeromonas
,
Clostridium
,
Cetobacterium
,
Shewanella
,
Prochlorococcus
, and
Vibrio
.
“…The dominance of Aeromonas in the gut microbiota suggested that Gymnocypris przewalskii fish were plagued by such pathogens. The findings for other genera and species were similar to the findings of previous studies on the gut microbiota of fishes ( 9 ).…”
Naked carp (
Gymnocypris przewalskii
) is a second-grade animal under state protection of China. We report 16S rRNA gene amplicon analysis of the gut microbiota of
Gymnocypris przewalskii
. The three most abundant phyla are
Tenericutes
,
Proteobacteria
, and
Fusobacteria
, and the six most abundant genera are
Aeromonas
,
Clostridium
,
Cetobacterium
,
Shewanella
,
Prochlorococcus
, and
Vibrio
.
“…2018; Iwatsuki et al . 2021). Lastly, our data showed a different set of microbiota communities than another study using the wild Japanese eel that was captured in three of Taiwan’s rivers.…”
Fish intestine contains different types of microbiomes, and bacteria are the dominant microbiota in fishes. Studies have identified various core gut bacteria in fishes. However, little is known about the composition and their relative functions of gut microbial community along the intestine. To explore this, the current study investigated the microbial community distribution along the gut in Anguilla japonica. By 16S rRNA gene sequencing, we profiled the gut microbiota in eel along the three regions (anterior intestine (AI), the middle intestine (MI) and the posterior intestine (PI)). Results suggested that the three regions did not have significant differences on the observed species and diversities. The cluster tree analysis showed that the bacteria community in MI was closer to PI than the AI. The dominant bacteria in AI were the Proteobacteria, in which the majority was graduated replaced by Bacteroidetes along the gut to PI region. Through PICRUSt analysis, shifts in the bacterial community along the gut were found to affect the genetic information processing pathways. Higher levels of translation and transcriptional pathway activities were found in MI and PI than in AI. The dominant bacterial species were different among the regions and contributed to various biological functions along the gut.
“…Gut microbiota, which facilitate host homeostasis ( 1 , 2 ), have been analyzed in many fish species ( 3 , 4 ) but rarely in deep-sea fish species ( 5 , 6 ). Individuals of Chimaera phantasma (silver chimera) ( 7 ) were caught in a trawl net (depth of approximately 200 to 250 m) off Koshimoda in Suruga Bay, Japan (34.86486N, 138.72713E).…”
The intestinal microbiota of
Chimaera phantasma
(silver chimera) (two females and one male) collected off Koshimoda in Suruga Bay in April to May 2022 were comprehensively analyzed. Bacteria belonging to the phylum
Proteobacteria
were the dominant species. Occupancy rates of other bacterial phyla differed greatly among the samples.
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