Effect of aquatic insects on lake sturgeon egg surface prokaryotic microbial communities

The study goal was to quantify and compare the effects of different insect taxa on the taxonomic composition and relative abundance of lake sturgeon egg surface bacterial communities. Understanding how and under what circumstances fish, aquatic insects, and microbes interact positively or negatively under future environmentally-induced changes in freshwater aquatic ecosystems is essential to ecosystem sustainability and to the ability of aquatic ecosystems to provide essential ecosystem services.