Host Age Affects the Development of Southern Catfish Gut Bacterial Community Divergent From That in the Food and Rearing Water

Host development influences gut microbial assemblies that may be confounded partly by dietary shifts and the changing environmental microbiota during ontogenesis. However, little is known about microbial colonization by excluding dietary effects and compositional differences in microbiota between th...

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Main Authors: Zhimin Zhang, Dapeng Li, Mohamed M. Refaey, Weitong Xu, Rong Tang, Li Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.00495/full