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Assessment of Various Standard Fish Diets on Gut Microbiome of Platyfish Xiphophorus maculatus

Soria et al., Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B. 2023.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jez.b.23218

Diet is an important factor affecting experimental reproducibility and data integration across studies. Reference diets for nontraditional animal models are needed to control diet-induced variation. In a study of the dietary impacts on the gut microbiome, researchers found that switching from a custom diet to a zebrafish diet altered the Xiphophorus gut microbiome. Their findings suggest that diets developed specifically for zebrafish can affect gut microbiome composition and might not be optimal for Xiphophorus. Supported by ORIP (R24OD011120, R24OD031467, P40OD011021) and NCI.