Many Questions Remain Unanswered About the Role of Microbial Transmission in Epizootic Shell Disease in American Lobsters (Homarus americanus)
Despite decades of research on lobster species’ biology, ecology, and microbiology, there are still unresolved questions about the microbial communities which associate in or on lobsters under healthy or diseased states, microbial acquisition, as well as microbial transmission between lobsters and b...
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| author | Suzanne L. Ishaq Suzanne L. Ishaq Sarah M. Turner Sarah M. Turner M. Scarlett Tudor M. Scarlett Tudor Jean D. MacRae Heather Hamlin Heather Hamlin Joelle Kilchenmann Grace Lee Deborah Bouchard Deborah Bouchard |
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| description | Despite decades of research on lobster species’ biology, ecology, and microbiology, there are still unresolved questions about the microbial communities which associate in or on lobsters under healthy or diseased states, microbial acquisition, as well as microbial transmission between lobsters and between lobsters and their environment. There is an untapped opportunity for metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, and metabolomics to be added to the existing wealth of knowledge to more precisely track disease transmission, etiology, and host-microbe dynamics. Moreover, we need to gain this knowledge of wild lobster microbiomes before climate change alters environmental and host-microbial communities more than it likely already has, throwing a socioeconomically critical industry into disarray. As with so many animal species, the effects of climate change often manifest as changes in movement, and in this perspective piece, we consider the movement of the American lobster (Homarus americanus), Atlantic Ocean currents, and the microorganisms associated with either. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c17a3887da71422a88ef6242cd8bbbf42022-12-22T02:20:17ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Microbiology1664-302X2022-05-011310.3389/fmicb.2022.824950824950Many Questions Remain Unanswered About the Role of Microbial Transmission in Epizootic Shell Disease in American Lobsters (Homarus americanus)Suzanne L. Ishaq0Suzanne L. Ishaq1Sarah M. Turner2Sarah M. Turner3M. Scarlett Tudor4M. Scarlett Tudor5Jean D. MacRae6Heather Hamlin7Heather Hamlin8Joelle Kilchenmann9Grace Lee10Deborah Bouchard11Deborah Bouchard12School of Food and Agriculture, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United StatesAquaculture Research Institute, Orono, ME, United StatesAquaculture Research Institute, Orono, ME, United StatesCooperative Extension, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United StatesAquaculture Research Institute, Orono, ME, United StatesCooperative Extension, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United StatesDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United StatesAquaculture Research Institute, Orono, ME, United StatesSchool of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United StatesSchool of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United StatesDepartment of Neuroscience, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, United StatesAquaculture Research Institute, Orono, ME, United StatesCooperative Extension, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United StatesDespite decades of research on lobster species’ biology, ecology, and microbiology, there are still unresolved questions about the microbial communities which associate in or on lobsters under healthy or diseased states, microbial acquisition, as well as microbial transmission between lobsters and between lobsters and their environment. There is an untapped opportunity for metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, and metabolomics to be added to the existing wealth of knowledge to more precisely track disease transmission, etiology, and host-microbe dynamics. Moreover, we need to gain this knowledge of wild lobster microbiomes before climate change alters environmental and host-microbial communities more than it likely already has, throwing a socioeconomically critical industry into disarray. As with so many animal species, the effects of climate change often manifest as changes in movement, and in this perspective piece, we consider the movement of the American lobster (Homarus americanus), Atlantic Ocean currents, and the microorganisms associated with either.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2022.824950/fullmicrobial community assemblyenvironmental microbiomeepizootic shell diseaseshell associated communityAtlantic Ocean microbiome |
| spellingShingle | Suzanne L. Ishaq Suzanne L. Ishaq Sarah M. Turner Sarah M. Turner M. Scarlett Tudor M. Scarlett Tudor Jean D. MacRae Heather Hamlin Heather Hamlin Joelle Kilchenmann Grace Lee Deborah Bouchard Deborah Bouchard Many Questions Remain Unanswered About the Role of Microbial Transmission in Epizootic Shell Disease in American Lobsters (Homarus americanus) Frontiers in Microbiology microbial community assembly environmental microbiome epizootic shell disease shell associated community Atlantic Ocean microbiome |
| title | Many Questions Remain Unanswered About the Role of Microbial Transmission in Epizootic Shell Disease in American Lobsters (Homarus americanus) |
| title_full | Many Questions Remain Unanswered About the Role of Microbial Transmission in Epizootic Shell Disease in American Lobsters (Homarus americanus) |
| title_fullStr | Many Questions Remain Unanswered About the Role of Microbial Transmission in Epizootic Shell Disease in American Lobsters (Homarus americanus) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Many Questions Remain Unanswered About the Role of Microbial Transmission in Epizootic Shell Disease in American Lobsters (Homarus americanus) |
| title_short | Many Questions Remain Unanswered About the Role of Microbial Transmission in Epizootic Shell Disease in American Lobsters (Homarus americanus) |
| title_sort | many questions remain unanswered about the role of microbial transmission in epizootic shell disease in american lobsters homarus americanus |
| topic | microbial community assembly environmental microbiome epizootic shell disease shell associated community Atlantic Ocean microbiome |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2022.824950/full |
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