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Compositional and functional features of the gut microbiota of the intertidal snail Nerita yoldii along China's coast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 April 2022

Ya-Jie Zhu ,
Ming-Ling Liao Open the ORCID record for Ming-Ling Liao [Opens in a new window] ,
Meng-Wen Ding ,
Zhao-Kai Wang  and
Yun-Wei Dong Open the ORCID record for Yun-Wei Dong [Opens in a new window]
Ya-Jie Zhu
Affiliation:
The Key Laboratory of Mariculture, Ministry of Education, Fisheries College, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, PR China
Ming-Ling Liao*
Affiliation:
The Key Laboratory of Mariculture, Ministry of Education, Fisheries College, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, PR China
Meng-Wen Ding
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Marine and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361000, PR China
Zhao-Kai Wang
Affiliation:
Third Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Xiamen 361005, China
Yun-Wei Dong*
Affiliation:
The Key Laboratory of Mariculture, Ministry of Education, Fisheries College, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, PR China Function Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Processes, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266235, PR China
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Author for correspondence: Ming-ling Liao, E-mail: liaoml@ouc.edu.cn; Yun-Wei Dong, E-mail: dongyw@ouc.edu.cn
Author for correspondence: Ming-ling Liao, E-mail: liaoml@ouc.edu.cn; Yun-Wei Dong, E-mail: dongyw@ouc.edu.cn
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Abstract

The gut microbiota plays an important role in animals’ survival in their local environments. The intertidal rocky shore is a key interface of oceanic, atmospheric and terrestrial environments, and the transmission modes of microbes between an intertidal host and the environment are complex and largely ignored. In the present study, we characterized the gut microbiota of the intertidal snail Nerita yoldii, which is experiencing a northward range shift under the combined impacts of climate change and anthropogenic seascape transformation, and also determined the nearby environmental microbiota on the rock and in the seawater at five locations along the snail's distribution range in China. The gut microbial communities were significantly different from the environmental microbial communities, and the dominant phyla were Tenericutes, Cyanobacteria and Bacteroidetes, and Proteobacteria in the gut, rock and seawater microbial communities, respectively. At the genus level, Mycoplasma, with a relative abundance of 48.0 ± 10.2%, was the dominant genus in the gut microbial community, however, the relative abundances of this genus on the rock and in the water were low. These results imply that the gut microbial community of the intertidal snail N. yoldii is relatively independent from the environmental microbial community, and the dominant genus Mycoplasma in the gut, that is rare in the environment, can potentially assist the snail living in the harsh intertidal environment, especially at its northernmost distribution range edge.

Keywords

Adaptationenvironmental bacteriagut microbiotaintertidal speciesspecies distribution
Type
Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 101 , Issue 8 , December 2021 , pp. 1103 - 1110
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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