10 April 2023

Does salmon choose its own microbiome?

Applied hologenomics

A new study shows that wild Atlantic salmon has a unique and surprisingly stable gut microbiome. This new knowledge can help improve the large salmon industry and make it more sustainable.

Salmon

You can watch the short video abstract below to learn more about this exciting new study carried out by postdoc Jacob Agerbo Rasmussen and colleagues or you can read a Danish news story written by the first author Jacob himself in the online science media Videnskab.dk.

Unexpected fishy microbes

The scientific study behind the video abstract and news story can be found in the scientific journal ISME. Jacob's fascinating study even made it into Nature's Genome Watch with the catchy title: Unexpected fishy microbes together with his co-authors Associate professor Morten Limborg and postdoc Physilia Chuan.

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Postdoc Jacob Agerbo Rasmussen.

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