“…In grass carp, intestinal microbes are useful not only for digesting dietary polysaccharides indigestible to host, but also for achieving nutritional and physiological homeostasis (Ni, Yan, Yu & Zhang, 2014). Intestinal microbial composition is influenced by many factors, including host's species (Li, Yu, Feng, Yan & Gong, 2012), aquatic environment and geolocation (Li, Zhong et al, 2015), host's diet (Li et al, 2016;Wu, Wang et al, 2012;Zhou, Chen, Zhang & Chen, 1998) and host's dietary supplementation application Wang, Zhu et al, 2015;Wu, Jiang, Ling & Wang, 2015;Wu, Feng et al, 2012;Zhou et al, 2013). Regarding the host's diet, in an early work, Zhou et al (1998) The use of antimicrobials in disease control is relatively common in aquaculture industry; however, it also decreases the number of host's intestinal microbiota (Haygood & Jha, 2016;Ringø et al, 2016).…”