Microbiomes of American Oysters (Crassostrea virginica) Harvested from Two Sites in the Chesapeake Bay

Sylvia Ossai; Padmini Ramachandran; Andrea Ottesen; Elizabeth Reed; Angelo DePaola; Salina Parveen

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00729-17

Microbiomes of American Oysters (Crassostrea virginica) Harvested from Two Sites in the Chesapeake Bay

Genome Announc. 2017 Jul 27;5(30):e00729-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00729-17.

Authors

Sylvia Ossai¹, Padmini Ramachandran², Andrea Ottesen², Elizabeth Reed², Angelo DePaola³, Salina Parveen⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Agriculture, Food and Resource Sciences, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, Maryland, USA.
² Office of Regulatory Science, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, USA.
³ Angelo DePaola Consulting, Coden, Alabama, USA.
⁴ Department of Agriculture, Food and Resource Sciences, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, Maryland, USA [email protected].

Abstract

In this study, we used 16S rRNA gene amplicons to describe the bacterial microbiota associated with oysters (Crassostrea virginica) and seawater collected from two sites in the Chesapeake Bay. The dominant bacterial groups included those belonging to the order Pelagibacteraceae, family Enterobacteriaceae, and genus Synechococcus The microbiomes varied among oysters from the same site and between the two sites and months.