Microbial Diversity of the Red Sea Urchin Loxechinus albus during Controlled Farming in Puerto Montt, Chile, Using 16S rRNA Gene Amplicon Sequencing

Abstract

Loxechinus albus is a shallow-water sea urchin, and its distribution is related to the cold water of the Southern Hemisphere. Recently, bacterial communities, also called microbiota, in sea urchins have started being explored. In this report, we have characterized the surface, testa, and gonad microbiota using 16S rRNA sequencing.