Besides the highly significant association with OTU richness and community composition, the median grain size also yielded a large number of differentially abundant OTUs, with 12 OTUs decreasing with median grain size, and 35 OTUs increasing.
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Flatfish intestinal microbiota depend on various host traits, and vary with sediment type and bottom trawling effort.
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Our study was able to disentangle these effects to some extent, as we found that OTU richness increased with age, whereas a decreasing trend in richness was found for weight, after correcting for age.