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Tilapia ( Oreochromis mossambicus ) is one of the most invasive fish found throughout the World and emerged as a major threat to the indigenous fishes in many countries. Investigating the gut microbial diversity of such fishes is one of the ways to understand its physiology. In the present study, we have explored the gut microbial community structure of tilapia using 16S rRNA gene sequencing on the Illumina Miseq platform. Our study showed significant differences in tilapia gut microbiota collected from different habitats (i.e. river and lakes) suggesting the influence of habitat on the gut microbial diversity of tilapia. This study gives a first insight into the mossambicus tilapia gut microbiota and provides a reference for future studies.
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This work was supported by Dr. D.S. Kothari postdoctoral fellowship scheme by University Grant Commission, India to SSG; WNG thanks Departmental Research and Development Grant from Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India and University for Potential Excellence (UPE) phase II program and YSS thanks DBT India for providing funds to carry out this work under the MCC project Grant No. BT/PR10054/NDB/52/94/2007.
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Supplementary Fig. 1 The distribution of bacterial community between TRgut and TLgut samples. Bacterial abundance in the TRgut sample has a negative difference between proportions (green circles), whereas bacterial abundance in the TLgut sample has a positive difference between proportions (blue circles). Bars on the left represent the proportion of each bacterial phyla abundance in the samples. p values are shown in the right side (PNG 110 kb)
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Supplementary Fig. 2 The distribution of bacterial community between TRwater and TRgut samples. Bacterial abundance in the TRwater sample has a negative difference between proportions (purple circles), whereas bacterial abundance in the TRgut sample has a positive difference between proportions (green circles). Bars on the left represent the proportion of each bacterial phyla abundance in the samples. p values are shown in the right side (PNG 117 kb)
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Supplementary Fig. 3 The distribution of bacterial community between TLwater and TLgut samples. Bacterial abundance in the TLgut sample has a positive difference between proportions (blue circles), whereas bacterial abundance in the TLwater sample has a negative difference between proportions (orange circles). Bars on the left represent the proportion of each bacterial phyla abundance in the samples. p values are shown in the right side (PNG 117 kb)
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Gaikwad, S.S., Shouche, Y.S. & Gade, W.N. Deep Sequencing Reveals Highly Variable Gut Microbial Composition of Invasive Fish Mossambicus Tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) Collected from Two Different Habitats. Indian J Microbiol 57, 235–240 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12088-017-0641-9
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