Herbivorous fish gut metagenome sequencing and assembly. herbivorous fish gut metagenome

The gut microbiota of the marine herbivorous fish Kyphosus sydneyanus are thought to play an important role in host nutrition by supplying short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) through fermentation of dietary macroalgae. In this study, we assembled metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) from ten fish to determine the contribution of different bacterial taxonomic groups to degradation of seaweed carbohydrates along the gut.