Many Questions Remain Unanswered About the Role of Microbial Transmission in Epizootic Shell Disease in American Lobsters (Homarus americanus)

Frontiers in Microbiology

Suzanne L. Ishaq¹  M. Scarlett Tudor²  Deborah Bouchard²  Sarah M. Turner²  Jean D. MacRae³  Grace Lee⁴  Joelle Kilchenmann⁶  Heather Hamlin⁶ 

[1] Aquaculture Research Institute, Orono, ME, United States;Cooperative Extension, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States;Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States;Department of Neuroscience, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, United States;School of Food and Agriculture, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States;School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States;

关键词: microbial community assembly;    environmental microbiome;    epizootic shell disease;    shell associated community;    Atlantic Ocean microbiome;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fmicb.2022.824950

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Despite decades of research on lobster species’ biology, ecology, and microbiology, there are still unresolved questions about the microbial communities which associate in or on lobsters under healthy or diseased states, microbial acquisition, as well as microbial transmission between lobsters and between lobsters and their environment. There is an untapped opportunity for metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, and metabolomics to be added to the existing wealth of knowledge to more precisely track disease transmission, etiology, and host-microbe dynamics. Moreover, we need to gain this knowledge of wild lobster microbiomes before climate change alters environmental and host-microbial communities more than it likely already has, throwing a socioeconomically critical industry into disarray. As with so many animal species, the effects of climate change often manifest as changes in movement, and in this perspective piece, we consider the movement of the American lobster (Homarus americanus), Atlantic Ocean currents, and the microorganisms associated with either.

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