PRJNA860026
Apostichopus japonicus gut microbiota under aestivation cycles
Aestivation is a widespread survival strategy dealing with adverse environmental conditions such as high temperature, low oxygen and lack of water or food, which has been reported across multiple vertebrate and invertebrate species. The sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus is an excellent model organism to investigate the adaptive mechanism of aestivation in marine invertebrates.In this study, we reveal the gut microbiota of adult A. japonicus over the annual aestivation-arousal cycles: non-aestivation (NA), deep-aestivation (DA) and arousal from aestivation (AA).