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SUBMITTER: Brothers CJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6030520 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brothers Cecilia J CJ Van Der Pol William J WJ Morrow Casey D CD Hakim Joseph A JA Koo Hyunmin H McClintock James B JB
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20180601 1881
The microbiome of sea urchins plays a role in maintaining digestive health and innate immunity. Here, we investigated the effects of long-term (90 day) exposure to elevated seawater temperatures on the microbiome of the common, subtropical sea urchin <i>Lytechinus variegatus</i> The community composition and diversity of microbes varied according to the type of sample collected from the sea urchin (seawater, feed, intestines, coelomic fluid, digested pellet and faeces), with the lowest microbial ...[more]