ArticleMicrobiome2018
Skin microbiome of coral reef fish is highly variable and driven by host phylogeny and diet.
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- Microbial communities associated with the skin, gill, and gut of large yellow croaker (Larimichthys crocea).BMC microbiology · 2025Article
- The gills and skin microbiota of five pelagic fish species from the Atlantic Ocean.International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology · 2025Article
- High diversity of crustose coralline algae microbiomes across species and islands, and implications for coral recruits.Environmental microbiome · 2024Article
- Phylosymbiosis in Seven Wild Fish Species Collected Off the Southern Coast of Korea: Skin Microbiome Most Strongly Reflects Evolutionary Pressures.Microbial ecology · 2024Article
- Microbiome and epigenetic variation in wild fish with low genetic diversity.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Shark Microbiome Analysis Demonstrates Unique Microbial Communities in Two Distinct Mediterranean Sea Shark Species.Microorganisms · 2024Article
- Influence of host phylogeny and water physicochemistry on microbial assemblages of the fish skin microbiome.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2024Article
- Interwoven processes in fish development: microbial community succession and immune maturation.PeerJ · 2024Review
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Abstract
backgroundThe surface of marine animals is covered by abundant and diversified microbial communities, which have major roles for the health of their host. While such microbiomes have been deeply examined in marine invertebrates such as corals and sponges, the microbiomes living on marine vertebrates have received less attention. Specifically, the diversity of these microbiomes, their variability among species, and their drivers are still mostly unknown, especially among the fish species living on coral reefs that contribute to key ecosystem services while they are increasingly affected by human activities. Here, we investigated these knowledge gaps analyzing the skin microbiome of 138 fish individuals belonging to 44 coral reef fish species living in the same area.
resultsProkaryotic communities living on the skin of coral reef fishes are highly diverse, with on average more than 600 OTUs per fish, and differ from planktonic microbes. Skin microbiomes varied between fish individual and species, and interspecific differences were slightly coupled to the phylogenetic affiliation of the host and its ecological traits.
conclusionsThese results highlight that coral reef biodiversity is greater than previously appreciated, since the high diversity of macro-organisms supports a highly diversified microbial community. This suggest that beyond the loss of coral reefs-associated macroscopic species, anthropic activities on coral reefs could also lead to a loss of still unexplored host-associated microbial diversity, which urgently needs to be assessed.
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