Bacterial Communities of Ballan Wrasse (Labrus bergylta) Eggs at a Commercial Marine Hatchery

• Published in: Current Microbiology
• Main Authors: Bone, Aileen, Bekaert, Michaël, Papadopoulou, Athina, McMillan, Stuart, Adams, Alexandra, Davie, Andrew, Desbois, Andrew P
• Other Authors: Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre, Institute of Aquaculture, orcid:0000-0002-1206-7654, orcid:0000-0003-2368-7864, orcid:0000-0002-9524-618X, orcid:0000-0001-6052-8761
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2021
• Subjects: Ballan; Atlantic salmon; Salmo salar
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1893/32051; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00284-020-02286-8; http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/32051/1/Bone2021_Article_BacterialCommunitiesOfBallanWr.pdf

Ballan wrasse (Labrus bergylta, Ascanius 1767) are cleaner fish cultured in northern Europe to remove sea lice from farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar, Linnaeus 1758). Despite increasing appreciation for the importance of the microbiota on the phenotypes of vertebrates including teleosts, the micro...