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CHINESE JOURNAL OF OCEANOLOGY AND LIMNOLOGY
Volume 30, Issue 5, Pages 757-765Publisher
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s00343-012-1287-4
Keywords
denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis; grass carp; habitat; intestinal bacterial community
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- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2009CB118705]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30970358]
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The intestinal bacteria of vertebrates form a close relationship with their host. External and internal conditions of the host, including its habitat, affect the intestinal bacterial community. Similarly, the intestinal bacterial community can, in turn, influence the host, particularly with respect to disease resistance. We compared the intestinal bacterial communities of grass carp that were collected from farm-ponds or a lake. We conducted denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis of amplified 16S rRNA genes, from which 66 different operational taxonomic units were identified. Using both the unweighted pair-group method with arithmetic means clustering and principal component analysis ordination, we found that the intestinal bacterial communities from the two groups of pond fish were clustered together and inset into the clusters of wild fish, except for DF-7, and there was no significant correlation between genetic diversity of grass carp and their intestinal bacterial communities (Mantel one-tailed test, R=0.157, P=0.175). Cetobacterium appeared more frequently in the intestine of grass carp collected from pond. A more thorough understanding of the role played by intestinal microbiota on fish health would be of considerable benefit to the aquaculture industry.
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