Fine scale transitions of the microbiota and metabolome along the gastrointestinal tract of herbivorous fishes.
Wesley J SparagonEmily C GentryJeremiah J MinichLisa VollbrechtLieve M L LaurensEric E AllenNeil A SimsPieter C DorresteinLinda Wegley KellyCraig E NelsonPublished in: Animal microbiome (2022)
The combination of microbial and untargeted metabolomic data at high spatial resolution provides a new view of the diverse fish gut microenvironment and serves as a foundation to understand functional partitioning of microbial activities that contribute to the digestion of complex macroalgae in herbivorous marine fish.