Wild eel microbiome reveals that skin mucus of fish could be a natural niche for aquatic mucosal pathogen evolution

Wild eel microbiome reveals that skin mucus of fish could be a natural niche for aquatic mucosal pathogen evolution

Abstract Background Fish skin mucosal surfaces (SMS) are quite similar in composition and function to some mammalian MS and, in consequence, could constitute an adequate niche for the evolution of mucosal aquatic pathogens in natural environments. We aimed to test this hypothesis by searching for me...

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Main Authors: Miguel Carda-Diéguez, Rohit Ghai, Francisco Rodríguez-Valera, Carmen Amaro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-12-01
Series:Microbiome
Subjects:
Vibrio
Skin mucus
Microbiome
Metagenomics
Attached microbiota
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-017-0376-1

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