ArticlePloS one2023
Gut microbiota fingerprinting as a potential tool for tracing the geographical origin of farmed mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis).
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- Seafood procurement auctions in the presence of origin falsification: Price-only auction versus scoring auction.PloS one · 2026Article
- Gilthead sea bream gut bacteriome as a valuable tool for seafood provenance analysis.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- Reveal your microbes, and i'll reveal your origins: geographical traceability via Scomber colias intestinal tract metagenomics.Animal microbiome · 2025Article
- Enhancing seafood traceability: tracking the origin of seabass and seabream from the tuscan coast area by the analysis of the gill bacterial communities.Animal microbiome · 2024Article
- Explainable artificial intelligence and microbiome data for food geographical origin: the Mozzarella di Bufala Campana PDO Case of Study.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Identifying the provenance of seafood is critical to combat commercial fraud, enforce food safety regulations and ensure consumers' confidence. Hence, the current study aimed to determine if the bacterial composition present in the digestive gland and stomach of M. galloprovincialis mussels could be used as traceability approach to discriminate their geographic origin. The microbiota of 160 mussels collected seasonally in 2019 from five different mussel farms located in three regions in Spain (Galicia, Basque Country and Catalonia) was characterized using 16S rRNA targeted amplicon sequencing. Results showed that the bacterial community composition/fingerprint was significantly different between harvesting locations and seasons, with the effect prompted by the origin exceeding the seasonal variability. To further evaluate the stability and potential of this traceability approach, the bacterial fingerprint of 20 new individuals collected from the Basque Country in autumn 2020 were compared to the profiles obtained in 2019. Results showed that mussels collected from the Basque Country in two consecutive years cluster together, even matching the season of harvesting. The findings of this preliminary study support that this methodological approach has the potential to trace the geographical origin of unprocessed mussels and could have potential uses in seafood traceability and food safety.
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