Department of Fisheries, Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Seeb, Oman
Short Communication
Modifications to bacterial biological communities relevant with grown shellfish
Author(s): Akbar Ali*
In China's very profitable marine aquaculture business, crustaceans
(Crassostrea gigas) are grown on a vast scale. However, there have been numerous
mass fatalities of farmed oysters in recent years owing to disease and
environmental factors (such as high temperatures). We employed highthroughput
sequencing to evaluate the dynamics of bacterial and protist
communities in oysters at different growth stages to investigate potential links
between microorganisms and oyster farming mortality.
As a result, the microbial communities of farmed oysters evolved
dramatically and differed significantly from those of natural oysters and
ambient bacteria. As the oysters grew larger, the number of biomarker taxa
between them and their surroundings dropped. The number of ecologically
useful genes in the microbial community changed during the mass extinction
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