Sex, Age, and Bacteria: How the Intestinal Microbiota Is Modulated in a Protandrous Hermaphrodite Fish.

The current results show a decreasing trend with age of these three genera – Corynebacterium , Kocuria , and Propionibacterium – which can indicate that bacterial communities in mature female fish have less capacity to produce organic fatty acids, vitamins and microbial inhibitors.

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