Skin microbiome of coral reef fish is highly variable and driven by host phylogeny and diet

Microbiome
Marlène ChiarelloSébastien Villéger

Abstract

The 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. Prokaryotic 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. These results highlight that coral reef biodiversity is greater than previously appreciated, since the high diversity of macro-orga...Continue Reading

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
Illumina sequencing
PCR

Software Mentioned

GUniFrac R - package
vegan R - package
PATHd8
LefSe
PERMANOVAs
Unifrac
ARB
Mothur
PERMANOVA
entropart R - package

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