Environmental contamination alters the intestinal microbial community of the livebearer killifish Phalloceros caudimaculatus
Christian NOLORBE-PAYAHUA, Anderson Santos de Freitas, Luiz Fernando Würdig Roesch, Juliano Zanette
Abstract
genera, which correlated strongly with the polluted stream. These taxa might represent potential microbial biomarkers of exposure to environmental contaminants in the guts of fish. Confirmation of these findings in other polluted environments might allow the development of a microbiota-based screening approach for environmental evaluation in ecotoxicological studies in aquatic ecosystems.
Topics & Concepts
FirmicutesBiologyMicrobial population biologyRelative species abundanceProteobacteriaEcologyGut floraZoologyAbundance (ecology)16S ribosomal RNABacteriaGeneticsImmunologyAquaculture disease management and microbiotaGut microbiota and healthPharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts