A review of the use of prebiotic in aquaculture for fish and shrimp
Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: It has been documented in a number of food animals that gastrointestinal bacteria play important roles in affectingthe nutrition and health of the host organism. Thus, various means of altering the intestinal bacteria to achievefavorable effects such as better resistance to pathogens, enhancing growth and immune stimulation of the hostorganism have been investigated in various fish and shrimp. In this respect, probiotics and prebiotics are used infarm animal and for aquaculture, although the probiotic approach has been extensively used and advocated, viabilityafter ingestion is difficult to guarantee and almost impossible to prove. The prebiotic concept dictates that non viabledietary components fortify certain components of the intestinal flora. This concept has the advantage that survival ofthe ingested ingredient through the upper gastrointestinal tract is not a prerequisite because it is indigenousbacterial genera that are targeted. Despite some positive effects prebiotic supplements on fish and crustaceans havebeen published however it seems such information for aquatic organism is inadequate. This paper will give shortreview of recent studies in which the effects of various prebiotics have been evaluated for potential application in theaquacultural production of fish and shrimp.
Authors: Mehdi Yousefian, Amiri
Language: English
Subfield: Immunology
Field: Immunology and Microbiology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2121270095