Aaron Oliver

Aaron Oliver

Computational marine microbiologist

Functional guilds of seaweed degradation & detoxification by algivorous fish gut microbiota

Published in 11th Annual Southern California Microbiome Symposium, 2025

Recommended citation: Oliver, A., Plominsky, A.M. et al. Functional guilds of seaweed degradation & detoxification by algivorous fish gut microbiota. Southern California Microbiome Symposium (2025).

Thank you for scanning my QR code! You can download a PDF of my poster here! The preprint is not yet publicly available, check back in a few days.

If you are interested in this topic, I suggest reading some of my prior work on the subject:

The first enrichments of Kyphosus gut microbiota and early signs of substrate preferences.

How are genes organized across the Kyphosus microbiome?

As well as some work on Kyphosus and seaweed microbiota by other scholars:

Clements, K.D. et al. Intestinal microbiota in fishes: what’s known and what’s not. Mol Ecol, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.12699

Sparagon, W.J. et al. Fine scale transitions of the microbiota and metabolome along the gastrointestinal tract of herbivorous fishes. anim microbiome, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42523-022-00182-z

Mountfort, D.O. et al. Hindgut Fermentation in Three Species of Marine Herbivorous Fish. Appl Environ Microbiol, 2002. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.68.3.1374-1380.2002

Khan, T. et al. Functional guilds and drivers of diversity in seaweed-associated bacteria, FEMS Microbes, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsmc/xtad023

Lapébie, P. et al. Bacteroidetes use thousands of enzyme combinations to break down glycans. Nat Commun, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10068-5

Supplemental information:

feedstock
The feedstocks used in this project
bioinformatics
The bioinformatic tools used in this project