Metagenomic 16S rRNA Sequencing Analysis of Pacific Oyster (Crassostrea gigas) Microbiota from the Puget Sound Region in the United States

Zhen Li; Leyi Wang

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00468-17

Metagenomic 16S rRNA Sequencing Analysis of Pacific Oyster (Crassostrea gigas) Microbiota from the Puget Sound Region in the United States

Genome Announc. 2017 Jun 8;5(23):e00468-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00468-17.

Authors

Zhen Li¹, Leyi Wang²

Affiliations

¹ Washington State Department of Health, Public Health Laboratories, Shoreline, Washington, USA lizhen@isu.edu.
² Ohio Department of Agriculture, Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Reynoldsburg, Ohio, USA.

Abstract

This is the first study analyzing Pacific oyster microbiota in the Puget Sound estuarine system using a next-generation sequencing method. Taxonomic analysis indicated that Tenericutes, Chlamydiae, Proteobacteria, and Firmicutes were the most abundant phyla. Small numbers of operational taxonomic units (OTUs) belonging to the Vibrio genus were detected in all the oyster microbiome samples.