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Coupling metagenomics with cultivation to select host-specific probiotic micro-organisms for subtropical aquaculture.

AIMS: To demonstrate a nonempirical workflow to select host-specific probiotics for aquaculture industry.

METHODS AND RESULTS: Using both culture-dependent and culture-independent methods, we have systematically investigated, for the first time, the gut microbiota of twelve subtropical aquatic animal species. We found that the diversity, abundance and distribution of gut micro-organisms of these animals were host-specific and that lactic acid bacteria (LAB) were predominant among the indigenous probiotic microbes. Using culturing method, we isolated and characterized ninety-eight LAB strains; however, only a few strains was representative of the dominant LAB OTUs recovered by culture-independent analysis.

CONCLUSIONS: Two cultured LAB strains, Enterococcus faecalis LS1-2 and Enterococcus faecium Z1-2, capturing the major LAB OTUs in the sequencing data set of the most animal samples and showing significant antimicrobial activities against shrimp pathogens, were suggested to be the candidates of shrimp probiotics.

SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF STUDY: Disease outbreak and the consequential abuse of antibiotics have been the constraints to the aquaculture industry. However, the selection of probiotic bacteria is currently still an empirical process due to our limited knowledge on the gastrointestinal microbiota of aquatic organisms. Our study points to a nonempirical selection process by which host-specific probiotics can be developed.

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