PMID- 37391154 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230920 LR - 20230920 IS - 1879-1026 (Electronic) IS - 0048-9697 (Linking) VI - 896 DP - 2023 Oct 20 TI - Comparison of the gill and gut microbiomes of common carp (Cyprinus carpio) and zebrafish (Danio rerio) and their RAS environment. PG - 165212 LID - S0048-9697(23)03835-4 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165212 [doi] AB - Recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) are increasingly being used to grow fish, as intensive water reuse reduces water consumption and environmental impact. RAS use biofilters containing nitrogen-cycling microorganisms that remove ammonia from the aquaculture water. Knowledge of how RAS microbial communities relate to the fish-associated microbiome is limited, as is knowledge of fish-associated microbiota in general. Recently, nitrogen-cycling bacteria have been discovered in zebrafish and carp gills and shown to detoxify ammonia in a manner similar to the RAS biofilter. Here, we compared RAS water and biofilter microbiomes with fish-associated gut and gill microbial communities in laboratory RAS housing either zebrafish (Danio rerio) or common carp (Cyprinus carpio) using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. The phylogeny of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in the gills and the RAS environment was investigated in more detail by phylogenetic analysis of the ammonia monooxygenase subunit A (amoA). The location from which the microbiome was sampled (RAS compartments and gills or gut) had a stronger effect on community composition than the fish species, but species-specific differences were also observed. We found that carp- and zebrafish-associated microbiomes were highly distinct from their respective RAS microbiomes, characterized by lower overall diversity and a small core microbiome consisting of taxa specifically adapted to the respective organ. The gill microbiome was also defined by a high proportion of unique taxa. Finally, we found that amoA sequences from the gills were distinct from those from the RAS biofilter and water. Our results showed that the gut and gill microbiomes of carp and zebrafish share a common and species-specific core microbiome that is distinct from the microbially-rich RAS environment. CI - Copyright (c) 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Mes, Wouter AU - Mes W AD - Cluster Microbiology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Cluster Ecology & Physiology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. FAU - Lucker, Sebastian AU - Lucker S AD - Cluster Microbiology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. FAU - Jetten, Mike S M AU - Jetten MSM AD - Cluster Microbiology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. FAU - Siepel, Henk AU - Siepel H AD - Cluster Ecology & Physiology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. FAU - Gorissen, Marnix AU - Gorissen M AD - Cluster Ecology & Physiology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. FAU - van Kessel, Maartje A H J AU - van Kessel MAHJ AD - Cluster Microbiology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Electronic address: maartje.vankessel@science.ru.nl. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20230628 PL - Netherlands TA - Sci Total Environ JT - The Science of the total environment JID - 0330500 RN - 0 (RNA, Ribosomal, 16S) RN - 7664-41-7 (Ammonia) RN - 059QF0KO0R (Water) RN - N762921K75 (Nitrogen) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - *Gastrointestinal Microbiome/genetics MH - Zebrafish/genetics MH - Gills MH - *Carps MH - Phylogeny MH - RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics MH - Ammonia MH - Aquaculture MH - *Microbiota MH - Water MH - Nitrogen OTO - NOTNLM OT - Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria OT - Biofilter OT - Microbiome OT - Recirculating aquaculture system OT - Symbionts COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. EDAT- 2023/07/01 11:41 MHDA- 2023/09/20 06:42 CRDT- 2023/06/30 19:18 PHST- 2023/03/23 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/06/12 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2023/06/27 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/09/20 06:42 [medline] PHST- 2023/07/01 11:41 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/06/30 19:18 [entrez] AID - S0048-9697(23)03835-4 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165212 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Sci Total Environ. 2023 Oct 20;896:165212. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165212. Epub 2023 Jun 28.