Shifting environmental conditions are known to be important triggers of oyster diseases. The
mechanism (s) behind these synergistic effects (interplay between host, environment and …

Highlights•High-throughput sequencing technologies enabled research on bivalve-
microbiota interactions.•Bivalve-microbiota interactions depend on host factors nested within …

A sudden drop in salinity following extreme precipitation events usually causes mass
mortality of oysters exposed to pathogens in ocean environment. While how low salinity …

Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome (POMS) affects Crassostrea gigas oysters worldwide and
causes important economic losses. Disease dynamic was recently deciphered and revealed …

The Pacific oyster (Crassostreae gigas) has been introduced from Asia to numerous
countries around the world during the 20th century. C. gigas is the main oyster species …

Microbiota can have positive and negative effects on hosts depending on the environmental
conditions. Therefore, it is important to decipher host–microbiota–environment interactions …

Background Studies of oyster microbiomes have revealed that a limited number of microbes,
including pathogens, can dominate microbial communities in host tissues such as gills and …

Background The interaction of organisms with their surrounding microbial communities
influences many biological processes, a notable example of which is the shaping of the …

The cultivated Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas has suffered for decades large scale summer
mortality phenomenon resulting from the interaction between the environment parameters …

Macroalgae are important ecosystem engineers in temperate marine waters. The function of
macroalgae is intimately linked to the composition and structure of their epibiotic bacterial …