1. Origin and ecological selection of core and food-specific bacterial communities associated with meat and seafood spoilage
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Jean-Jacques Joffraud, Souad Christieans, Catherine Denis, Carole Feurer, Xavier Dousset, Marie-France Pilet, Dephine Roux, Hervé Prévost, Stéphanie La Carbona, Aurélie Chaulot-Talmon, Sylvie Lorre, Marina Rivollier, Monique Zagorec, Sabine Leroy, Françoise Leroi, Régine Talon, Mireille Cardinal, Erwann Hamon, Hélène Caekebeke, Marie Hélène Desmonts, Sabrina Macé, Stéphane Chaillou, Marie-Christine Champomier-Vergès, MICrobiologie de l'ALImentation au Service de la Santé (MICALIS), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-AgroParisTech, Plate Forme d'Innovations Nouvelles Vagues, Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), Association pour le Développement de l'Industrie de la Viande, ACTALIA [Villers-Bocage], Aérial - Centre de Ressources Technologiques et Institut Technique Agro-Industriel, UMR 1014 SECurité des ALIments et Microbiologie, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire, Agroalimentaire et de l'alimentation Nantes-Atlantique (ONIRIS), Oniris, PRES Université Nantes Angers Le Mans (UNAM), Institut du Porc (IFIP), Unité de Microbiologie (MIC), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Biocéane, French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) within ALIA (Food Research) program ANR-10-ALIA-018-02 VALORIAL AQUIMER, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Département Microbiologie et Chaîne Alimentaire (MICA), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire, Agroalimentaire et de l'alimentation Nantes-Atlantique (ONIRIS)-SECurité des ALIments et Microbiologie (SECALIM), Institut du Porc, Microbiologie Environnement Digestif Santé - Clermont Auvergne (MEDIS), Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)-INRA Clermont-Ferrand-Theix, INRA Clermont-Ferrand-Theix-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA), Microbiologie Environnement Digestif Santé (MEDIS), and INRA Clermont-Ferrand-Theix-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])
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Meat ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,Food spoilage ,Food Contamination ,Microbiology ,Polymerase Chain Reaction ,Meat spoilage ,RNA, Ribosomal, 16S ,Food microbiology ,Animals ,DNA Barcoding, Taxonomic ,Food science ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,2. Zero hunger ,biology ,Bacteria ,Microbiota ,food and beverages ,16S ribosomal RNA ,biology.organism_classification ,Europe ,Food waste ,Seafood ,Food Microbiology ,Pyrosequencing ,Original Article ,Food contaminant - Abstract
The microbial spoilage of meat and seafood products with short shelf lives is responsible for a significant amount of food waste. Food spoilage is a very heterogeneous process, involving the growth of various, poorly characterized bacterial communities. In this study, we conducted 16S ribosomal RNA gene pyrosequencing on 160 samples of fresh and spoiled foods to comparatively explore the bacterial communities associated with four meat products and four seafood products that are among the most consumed food items in Europe. We show that fresh products are contaminated in part by a microbiota similar to that found on the skin and in the gut of animals. However, this animal-derived microbiota was less prevalent and less abundant than a core microbiota, psychrotrophic in nature, mainly originated from the environment (water reservoirs). We clearly show that this core community found on meat and seafood products is the main reservoir of spoilage bacteria. We also show that storage conditions exert strong selective pressure on the initial microbiota: alpha diversity in fresh samples was 189 +/- 58 operational taxonomic units (OTUs) but dropped to 27 +/- 12 OTUs in spoiled samples. The OTU assemblage associated with spoilage was shaped by low storage temperatures, packaging and the nutritional value of the food matrix itself. These factors presumably act in tandem without any hierarchical pattern. Most notably, we were also able to identify putative new clades of dominant, previously undescribed bacteria occurring on spoiled seafood, a finding that emphasizes the importance of using culture-independent methods when studying food microbiota.
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- 2014
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