Delphine Destoumieux-Garzón, Caroline Montagnani, Luc Dantan, Noémie de San Nicolas, Marie-Agnès Travers, Léo Duperret, Guillaume M Charrière, Eve Toulza, Guillaume Mitta, Céline Cosseau, Jean-Michel Escoubas
The Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas lives in microbe-rich marine coastal systems subjected to rapid environmental changes. It harbours a diversified and fluctuating microbiota that cohabits with immune cells expressing a diversified immune gene repertoire. In the early stages of oyster development, just after fertilization, the microbiota plays a key role in educating the immune system. Exposure to a rich microbial environment at the larval stage leads to an increase in immune competence throughout the life of the oyster, conferring a better protection against pathogenic infections at later juvenile/adult stages...
May 6, 2024: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences