The gut microbiome of shrimp and fish from polyculture or monoculture ponds
Fishery and aquaculture supply 17% of global animal protein consumption, and diseases pose a significant constraint on the development of aquaculture industry. Multi-species symbiotic ecosystems like rice-fish and shrimp-fish polyculture, widely adopted across Asia and Africa, exhibit low bacterial disease prevalence. Herein, using shrimp-fish polyculture ecosystem as a model, we collected samples across three Asian countries to evaluate how fish alters shrimp gut microbiome.