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Metagenomic Analysis of Silage
Published on: January 13, 2017
The impact of depuration on mussel hepatopancreas bacteriome composition and predicted metagenome
J A Rubiolo1, A Lozano-Leon2, R Rodriguez-Souto2
1Departamento de Zoología, Genética y Antropología Física, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Campus Lugo, 27002, Lugo, Spain. ja.rubiolo@usc.es.
Abstract:
Due to the rapid elimination of bacteria through normal behaviour of filter feeding and excretion, the decontamination of hazardous contaminating bacteria from shellfish is performed by depuration. This process, under conditions that maximize shellfish filtering activity, is a useful method to eliminate microorganisms from bivalves. The microbiota composition in bivalves reflects that of the environment of harvesting waters, so quite different bacteriomes would be expected in shellfish collected in different locations. Bacterial accumulation within molluscan shellfish occurs primarily in the hepatopancreas. In order to assess the effect of the depuration process on these different bacteriomes, in this work we used 16S RNA pyrosequencing and metagenome prediction to assess the impact of 15 h of depuration on the whole hepatopancreas bacteriome of mussels collected in three different locations.
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