Characterization of the Gut microbiota of the Antarctic Heart Urchin (Spatangoida) Abatus agassizii

• Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology
• Main Authors: Schwob, Guillaume, Cabrol, Lea, Poulin, Elie, Orlando, Julieta
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media 2020
• Subjects: Heart sea urchin; Deposit-feeder; Abatus agassizii; Gut microbiota; Core-microbiota; Keystone; West Antarctic Peninsula; Antarctica; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Inach; King George Island; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00308; https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/174743

Abatus agassizii is an irregular sea urchin species that inhabits shallow waters of South Georgia and South Shetlands Islands. As a deposit-feeder, A. agassizii nutrition relies on the ingestion of the surrounding sediment in which it lives barely burrowed. Despite the low complexity of its feeding...