Enrichable consortia of microbial symbionts degrade macroalgal polysaccharides in Kyphosus fish.
Aaron OliverSheila PodellLinda Wegley KellyWesley J SparagonAlvaro M PlominskyRobert S NelsonLieve M L LaurensSimona AugyteNeil A SimsCraig E NelsonEric E AllenPublished in: bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (2023)
guts as an untapped source of seaweed-degrading enzymes ripe for further characterization. These discoveries set the stage for future work incorporating marine enzymes and microbial communities in the industrial degradation of algal polysaccharides.