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Wanna see something weird?! Ever thought about this? Every 2nd animal is a fish.
Despite this fact, much about the #microbiome in fish is unknown!
How is the #metagenome in Norwegian wild Atlantic #salmon as a case? In one word - surprising!
Here is a thread! (1/10)
Despite this fact, much about the #microbiome in fish is unknown!
How is the #metagenome in Norwegian wild Atlantic #salmon as a case? In one word - surprising!
Here is a thread! (1/10)
We have used genome-resolving metagenomics to discover some wild and surprising interactions
between 🐟 and 🦠 in Atlantic salmon featured in @ISME_microbes
Please have a read: rdcu.be/c5Pny (2/10)
between 🐟 and 🦠 in Atlantic salmon featured in @ISME_microbes
Please have a read: rdcu.be/c5Pny (2/10)
The first surprise we encountered was the simplicity of the microbiome of wild salmon! One 🦠 ruled over all the others no matter the sampling location - despite this being across 700 Km! (3/10)
The word #Microbiome is derived from the word "biome", i.e. a distinct environmental habitat, in which microbes occupy and are part of. A Microbiome is therefore a spatially distinct environment with unique bio-physical properties AND its associated microbes. 🦠+🏝️
#Microbiota refers to the microbial members of the microbiome. 🦠 This word is therefore strongly related to this microbial biome but it does not concern the environmental conditions of the specified habitat.
I see lots of people and papers still defining #microbiome as a "collection of genes/genomes". Worth knowing though is that "microbiome" is not an -omics word related to the word genome. We have another, more appropriate, word to describe a collection of genomes: #metagenome
