Microbiota fingerprints within the oral cavity of cetaceans as indicators for population biomonitoring

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Soares-Castro, Pedro, Araújo-Rodrigues, Helena, Godoy-Vitorino, Filipa, Ferreira, Marisa, Covelo, Pablo, López, Alfredo, Vingada, José, Eira, Catarina, Santos, P. M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Research 2019
• Subjects: Animals; Biological Monitoring; Cetacea; DNA Barcoding; Taxonomic; Microbiota; Mouth; Ciências Naturais::Ciências Biológicas; Science & Technology; Bia; Sobral; Phocoena phocoena
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/73224; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50139-7

The composition of mammalian microbiota has been related with the host health status. In this study, we assessed the oral microbiome of 3 cetacean species most commonly found stranded in Iberian Atlantic waters (Delphinus delphis, Stenella coeruleoalba and Phocoena phocoena), using 16S rDNA-amplicon...