| dc.description.abstract | The skin mucus bacteriome of fish plays an important role in the health of their hosts. Despite
the economic importance of the common carp (Cyprinus carpio), research on its skin bacteriome
composition is still missing. To date, most studies on the composition of fish skin bacteriome
have used amplicon sequencing, despite the limitations associated with this method. In our study,
a shotgun metagenomic approach was applied to characterise the external mucus bacteriome of 8
carp specimens from two different ponds on a fish farm in Hungary. Besides the carp samples,
water was also sequenced from the two corresponding ponds. Each carp skin sample was
dominated by the phylum Proteobacteria, followed by Actinobacteria, Bacteroidota, Firmicutes,
Cyanobacteria and Planctomycetota. | en_US |
