“…The community structure and relative abundance of gut microbes vary among hosts. In aquatic animals, for example, the dominant phyla are Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Tenericutes and Firmicutes in crabs ( Hong et al, 2020 ; Wei et al, 2019 ; Wei et al, 2020 ), Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes and Proteobacteria in shrimps ( Rungrassamee et al, 2014 ), fish ( Egerton et al, 2018 ), sea turtles ( Campos et al, 2018 ; McDermid et al, 2020 ) and sea lions ( Delport et al, 2016 ), and Proteobacteria and Firmicutes in sharks ( Givens et al, 2015 ). Each gut microbial phylum may have unique functional roles.…”