Microbiomes of aquatic animals.

The fourth one focused on the microbiome of an ostracod (Arthropoda, Crustacea) species, reporting that it was different from the known microbiomes of other freshwater ostracods, but had large variability even among ostracod individuals from the same population. Guest editors: Isa Schön, Diego Fontaneto & Elena L. Peredo / Aquatic Microbiomes The holobiont approach (Bosch & Miller, [2]) in the study of animal ecology places strong emphasis on the strict association between the animals and their microbes, which are beneficial for the host's survival and fitness (Cornwallis et al., [3]). The other paper compared the hindgut microbiome of two fish (Chordata, Actinopterygii) species in an African lake showing that the two fish species had different diets, but not different microbiomes. [Extracted from the article]