PUBLICATION

Evidence for a core gut microbiota in the zebrafish

Authors
Roeselers, G., Mittge, E.K., Stephens, W.Z., Parichy, D.M., Cavanaugh, C.M., Guillemin, K., and Rawls, J.F.
ID
ZDB-PUB-110512-3
Date
2011
Source
The ISME Journal   5(10): 1595-608 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Guillemin, Karen, Mittge, Erika K., Parichy, David M., Rawls, John F.
Keywords
bacteria, danio rerio, fish, gastrointestinal tract, microbiome, pyrosequencing, zebrafish
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Bacteria/classification*
  • Bacteria/genetics
  • Bacteria/isolation & purification
  • Gastrointestinal Tract/microbiology*
  • Intestines/microbiology
  • Metagenome*
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • RNA, Bacterial/genetics
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics
  • Zebrafish/genetics
  • Zebrafish/microbiology*
PubMed
21472014 Full text @ ISME J.
Abstract
Experimental analysis of gut microbial communities and their interactions with vertebrate hosts is conducted predominantly in domesticated animals that have been maintained in laboratory facilities for many generations. These animal models are useful for studying coevolved relationships between host and microbiota only if the microbial communities that occur in animals in lab facilities are representative of those that occur in nature. We performed 16S rRNA gene sequence-based comparisons of gut bacterial communities in zebrafish collected recently from their natural habitat and those reared for generations in lab facilities in different geographic locations. Patterns of gut microbiota structure in domesticated zebrafish varied across different lab facilities in correlation with historical connections between those facilities. However, gut microbiota membership in domesticated and recently caught zebrafish was strikingly similar, with a shared core gut microbiota. The zebrafish intestinal habitat therefore selects for specific bacterial taxa despite radical differences in host provenance and domestication status.
Genes / Markers
Figures
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Antibodies
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping