Gut microbiota of healthy and saprolegniosis-affected whitefish (Coregonus nasus) producers in aquaculture
- Authors: Vylka M.1, Lyutikov A.2, Dyakova S.3, Karlov D.3, Zhukova A.A.4,5, Golotin V.6
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Affiliations:
- Санкт-Петербургский филиал ГНЦ РФ ФГБНУ "ВНИРО"("ГосНИОРХ" им. Л.С. Берга")
- St. Petersburg Branch of VNIRO ("GosNIORKh" named after L.S. Berg)
- St. Petersburg Branch of VNIRO (GosNIORKh named after L.S. Berg)
- St. Petersburg branch of Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography
- Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
- Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography
- Section: Ecosystems metagenomics
- Submitted: 01.05.2025
- Accepted: 29.05.2025
- Published: 30.08.2025
- URL: https://journals.eco-vector.com/ecolgenet/article/view/679052
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/ecogen679052
- ID: 679052
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Abstract
Background. The gut microbiota is one of the main factor influencing the immunity of animals, including fish. Understanding the taxonomic and quantitative composition of the microbiota may hold the key to enhance fish immunity against bacterial and fungal infections in aquaculture that potentially could optimize fish farm management. The aim of this work is to determine the taxonomic composition differences of the gut microbiome between healthy and Saprolegnia-affected breeders of broad whitefish (Coregonus nasus, Pallas, 1776) under industrial farming conditions using high-throughput sequencing. Materials and methods. The gut microbiota composition was analyzed using NGS sequencing and the methods of bioinformatics. Hematological profiling was performed using standard microscopy-based techniques. Results. Preliminary data from high-throughput molecular genetic screening of the gut microbiota diversity in healthy and Saprolegnia-affected C. nasus individuals during the spawning period are presented. The hematological profile reliably distinguishes clinical differences between healthy fish and those infected with Saprolegnia. Differences in the taxonomic and quantitative composition of the gut microbiomes in C. nasus has been shown. Conclusion. Fish with the clinical signs of saprolegniosis showed a dominance of the phylum Proteobacteria (on average of 45.3%). There were comparable propotions (26.67–30.27%) of Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, and Actinobacteriota observed in healthy fish.
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Maxim Vylka
Санкт-Петербургский филиал ГНЦ РФ ФГБНУ "ВНИРО"("ГосНИОРХ" им. Л.С. Берга")
Email: vylka.maxim@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7583-864X
SPIN-code: 5468-2834
Russian Federation
Anatole Lyutikov
St. Petersburg Branch of VNIRO ("GosNIORKh" named after L.S. Berg)
Email: tokmo@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0418-8218
SPIN-code: 9187-6075
Russian Federation
Svetlana Dyakova
St. Petersburg Branch of VNIRO (GosNIORKh named after L.S. Berg)
Email: dyakova@niorh.vniro.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9970-403X
SPIN-code: 4202-4471
Russian Federation
Denis Karlov
Email: ds.karlov@arriam.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9030-8820
SPIN-code: 8355-8091
Alina A. Zhukova
St. Petersburg branch of Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
Email: gatteriyagreen@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4416-1901
SPIN-code: 6849-0483
Cand. Sci. (Biology)
Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg; Saint PetersburgVasily Golotin
Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography
Author for correspondence.
Email: golotin@bk.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0385-2463
SPIN-code: 7198-3170
Russian Federation
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