Compositional and Functional Shifts in the Epibiotic Bacterial Community of &lt;i&gt;Shinkaia crosnieri&lt;/i&gt; Baba &amp; Williams (a Squat Lobster from Hydrothermal Vents) during Methane-Fed Rearing
Journal: Microbes and Environments
Year: 2018

The hydrothermal vent squat lobster Shinkaia crosnieri Baba & Williams harbors an epibiotic bacterial community, which is numerically and functionally dominated by methanotrophs affiliated with Methylococcaceae and thioautotrophs affiliated with Sulfurovum and Thiotrichaceae. In the present study, shifts in the phylogenetic composition and metabolic function of the epibiont community were investigated using S. crosnieri individuals, which were reared for one year in a tank fed with methane as th