Ethical Approval and Consent to participate
The cuttlefish Sepia pharaonis were raised in Laifa Aquaculture company (Ningbo, Zhejiang). All experiments were carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the National Institutes of Health Guidelines for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. The research was conducted according to the Experimental Animal Ethics Committee of Ningbo University, China.
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Availability of supporting data
The data sets supporting the results of this article are included within the article and its additional files.
Competing interests
We declare that we have no financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that can inappropriately influence our work, there is no professional or other personal interest of any nature or kind in any product, service and/or company that could be construed as influencing the position presented in, or the review of, the manuscript entitled “Comparative analysis of the bacterial community in the cuttlefish Sepia pharaonis with different statuses”.
Funding
This work was supported by the Ningbo Science and Technology Bureau (2021Z007),the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholar (LR20C190001), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31972833), and also partly sponsored by K.C.Wong Magna Fund in Ningbo University.
Authors' contributions
Liting Xu: Conceptualization, methodology, software, formal analysis, validation, investigation, resources, writing - original draft, writing - review & editing
Yilong Ruan: Significantly contributed to the experiment
Maowang Jiang: Contributed to the conception of the study
Ruibing Peng: Contributed to the conception of the study
Xiamin Jiang: Conceptualization, methodology, visualization, supervision, project administration, funding acquisition
Weiwei Zhang: Conceptualization, methodology, visualization, supervision, paper revision
Qingxi Han*: Conceptualization, methodology, visualization, supervision, project administration, funding acquisition
Acknowledgments
The authors are thankful to the Xiangshan Laifa Aquatic Nursery for providing sample collection.
Authors' information
Liting Xu ([email protected])
Yilong Ruan ([email protected])
Maowang Jiang ([email protected])
Ruibing Peng ([email protected])
Xiamin Jiang ([email protected])
Weiwei Zhang ([email protected])
Qingxi Han* ([email protected])