Habitat and ontogenetic-associated differences in the skin microbiome of two Stegastes damselfishes (Pomacentridae) from the eastern Caribbean Sea

作者

Raquel Xavier¹ , Ana Pereira¹ , Andres Pagan¹ , Gina Hendrick² , Matthew Nicholson² , Daniela Rosado¹ , Marta Soares¹ , Marcos Perez-Losada³ , Paul Sikkel²

1. Cibio – InBio, University of Porto
2. Department of Biology, Arkansas State University
3. Computational Biology Institute, The George Washington University

会议/活动

The 39th AMLC Scientific Meeting, May 2019 (Punta Cana, Dominican Republic)

海报摘要

Juveniles and adults of two species of Stegastes damselfish were sampled in reef and lagoon habitats in Western Puerto Rico and Brewers Bay St Thomas, USVI. Skins were swabbed and the V4 hypervariable region of 16s rRNA gene was amplified. High intraspecific variability was found with locality and habitat type significantly influencing skin microbiome composition with several pathogenic taxa identified in samples collected from lagoon habitat. Increasing temperatures and anthropogenic impacts may increase abundance and impact of pathogenic bacteria in lower quality habitats (lagoons).

关键词

symbiosis, microbiome, 16s RNA, marine ecology

研究领域

Ecology and Forestry

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基金

1. National Science Foundation (No. OCE-1536794 (PC Sikkel, PI))
2. Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) (No. PTDC/MAR-BIO/0902/2014-POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016550)

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利益冲突

No competing interests were disclosed.

数据可用性声明

All raw data produced in this study are available at the National Center For Biotechnology (NCBI) Sequence Read Archive under the project PRJNA 599608.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/?term=599608

知识共享许可协议

Copyright © 2022 Xavier et al. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.