scholarly journals Composition, diversity and function of intestinal microbiota in pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) at different culture stages

PeerJ ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. e3986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shenzheng Zeng ◽  
Zhijian Huang ◽  
Dongwei Hou ◽  
Jian Liu ◽  
Shaoping Weng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intestinal Microbiota ◽  
Operational Taxonomic Unit ◽  
World Market ◽  
Pacific White Shrimp ◽  
White Shrimp ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
Microbial Composition ◽  
Recombination Proteins ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
And Function

Intestinal microbiota is an integral component of the host and plays important roles in host health. The pacific white shrimp is one of the most profitable aquaculture species commercialized in the world market with the largest production in shrimp consumption. Many studies revealed that the intestinal microbiota shifted significantly during host development in other aquaculture animals. In the present study, 22 shrimp samples were collected every 15 days from larval stage (15 day post-hatching, dph) to adult stage (75 dph) to investigate the intestinal microbiota at different culture stages by targeting the V4 region of 16S rRNA gene, and the microbial function prediction was conducted by PICRUSt. The operational taxonomic unit (OTU) was assigned at 97% sequence identity. A total of 2,496 OTUs were obtained, ranging from 585 to 1,239 in each sample. Forty-three phyla were identified due to the classifiable sequence. The most abundant phyla were Proteobacteria, Cyanobacteria, Tenericutes, Fusobacteria, Firmicutes, Verrucomicrobia, Bacteroidetes, Planctomycetes, Actinobacteria and Chloroflexi. OTUs belonged to 289 genera and the most abundant genera were Candidatus_Xiphinematobacter, Propionigenium, Synechococcus, Shewanella and Cetobacterium. Fifty-nine OTUs were detected in all samples, which were considered as the major microbes in intestine of shrimp. The intestinal microbiota was enriched with functional potentials that were related to transporters, ABC transporters, DNA repair and recombination proteins, two component system, secretion system, bacterial motility proteins, purine metabolism and ribosome. All the results showed that the intestinal microbial composition, diversity and functions varied significantly at different culture stages, which indicated that shrimp intestinal microbiota depended on culture stages. These findings provided new evidence on intestinal microorganism microecology and greatly enhanced our understanding of stage-specific community in the shrimp intestinal ecosystem.

scholarly journals Microbiome analysis of Pacific white shrimp gut and rearing water from Malaysia and Vietnam: implications for aquaculture research and management

PeerJ ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. e5826 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zarul Hanifah Md Zoqratt ◽  
Wilhelm Wei Han Eng ◽  
Binh Thanh Thai ◽  
Christopher M. Austin ◽  
Han Ming Gan
Keyword(s):  
16S Rrna ◽  
Microbial Diversity ◽  
Pond Water ◽  
Pacific White Shrimp ◽  
White Shrimp ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
Early Mortality Syndrome ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
High Sequence Conservation ◽  
Clustering Approach

Aquaculture production of the Pacific white shrimp is the largest in the world for crustacean species. Crucial to the sustainable global production of this important seafood species is a fundamental understanding of the shrimp gut microbiota and its relationship to the microbial ecology of shrimp pond. This is especially true, given the recently recognized role of beneficial microbes in promoting shrimp nutrient intake and in conferring resistance against pathogens. Unfortunately, aquaculture-related microbiome studies are scarce in Southeast Asia countries despite the severe impact of early mortality syndrome outbreaks on shrimp production in the region. In this study, we employed the 16S rRNA amplicon (V3–V4 region) sequencing and amplicon sequence variants (ASV) method to investigate the microbial diversity of shrimp guts and pond water samples collected from aquaculture farms located in Malaysia and Vietnam. Substantial differences in the pond microbiota were observed between countries with the presence and absence of several taxa extending to the family level. Microbial diversity of the shrimp gut was found to be generally lower than that of the pond environments with a few ubiquitous genera representing a majority of the shrimp gut microbial diversity such as Vibrio and Photobacterium, indicating host-specific selection of microbial species. Given the high sequence conservation of the 16S rRNA gene, we assessed its veracity at distinguishing Vibrio species based on nucleotide alignment against type strain reference sequences and demonstrated the utility of ASV approach in uncovering a wider diversity of Vibrio species compared to the conventional OTU clustering approach.

Antibiotic supplement in feed can perturb the intestinal microbial composition and function in Pacific white shrimp

2019 ◽  
Vol 103 (7) ◽  
pp. 3111-3122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shenzheng Zeng ◽  
Dongwei Hou ◽  
Jian Liu ◽  
Peilin Ji ◽  
Shaoping Weng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pacific White Shrimp ◽  
White Shrimp ◽  
Microbial Composition ◽  
And Function

Analysis on the expression and function of syndecan in the Pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei

2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 278-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Yang ◽  
Shihao Li ◽  
Fuhua Li ◽  
Rong Wen ◽  
Jianhai Xiang
Keyword(s):  
Litopenaeus Vannamei ◽  
Pacific White Shrimp ◽  
White Shrimp ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
And Function

scholarly journals Evaluation of the Dietary Black Soldier Fly Larvae Meal (Hermetia illucens) on Growth Performance, Intestinal Health, and Disease Resistance to Vibrio parahaemolyticus of the Pacific White Shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei)

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongkang Chen ◽  
Shuyan Chi ◽  
Shuang Zhang ◽  
Xiaohui Dong ◽  
Qihui Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Growth Performance ◽  
Intestinal Microbiota ◽  
Litopenaeus Vannamei ◽  
Vibrio Parahaemolyticus ◽  
Pacific White Shrimp ◽  
White Shrimp ◽  
Mrna Levels ◽  
Black Soldier Fly ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Black Soldier Fly Larvae

The present study evaluated the effects of the dietary black soldier fly larvae meal (BSF) on growth performance, intestinal health, and susceptibility to Vibrio parahaemolyticus in the Pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei. The basal diet was formulated to contain 25% fish meal (FM), and then the FM was replaced with BSF for 10, 20, and 30% of the FM protein in the experimental diets, which are referred to as FM, BSF10, BSF20, and BSF30, respectively. Four hundred and eighty healthy and uniform-sized shrimp (~0.88 g) were distributed among four groups of three replicates, each with 40 shrimp in a 300-L tank and they were fed four times daily for 7 weeks. The results showed that the growth performance did not change significantly in shrimp fed with BSF10 and BSF20 diets, but significantly decreased in those fed with BSF30 diet compared to the ones fed with FM diet. After feeding trial and sampling, a V. parahaemolyticus infection challenge trial was conducted on shrimp. The results showed that the survival rate of shrimp fed with BSF10 was significantly higher than those fed with FM. The results of the midgut histology showed that the width and height of intestinal mucosal folds decreased significantly in shrimp fed with BSF20 and BSF30, and the early signs of apoptosis in the intestinal cells were found in shrimp fed with BSF30. The mRNA levels of non-specific immune-related genes dorsal and relish were downregulated in shrimp fed with BSF20 and BSF30 diets. The mRNA levels of antimicrobial peptides–related genes alf (anti-lipopolysaccharide factor) were upregulated in shrimp fed with BSF10 but downregulated in shrimp fed with BSF30. The mRNA level pen3 (penaeidins 3) was upregulated in shrimp fed with BSF10 and BSF20 diets. The intestinal bacterial communities on operational taxonomic unit levels among groups were not significantly differentiated according to the beta diversity analysis. At the genus levels, a decrease in Vibrio, Photobacterium, and Candidatus_Bacilloplasma, as well as the increase in Bacillus and Pseudoalteromonas abundance, indicated the improvement of intestinal microbiota in shrimp fed with dietary BSF. Therefore, the use of BSF in shrimp diet should be controlled at a dosage of 20% of the FM, which can improve the intestinal microbiota without causing any negative effects.

Effects of the substitution of fishmeal with mealworm meal on enzymes, haemolymph and intestinal microbiota of the Pacific white shrimp

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
C. Rios ◽  
R.L. Panini ◽  
L.A. Acordi Menezes ◽  
F.N. Vieira ◽  
D.M. Fracalossi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intestinal Microbiota ◽  
Digestive Enzyme ◽  
Pacific White Shrimp ◽  
Shrimp Farming ◽  
White Shrimp ◽  
Bacterial Microbiota ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Proteolytic Activities ◽  
Cultivated Species ◽  
Dietary Treatments

Shrimp farming is one profitable sector of aquaculture and the Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) is the most cultivated species worldwide. Nutrition is considered as one of the greatest challenges in shrimp farming due to its dependence on fishmeal (FM) as an ingredient in the feed. The main goal of the present work was to analyse if the substitution of FM by yellow mealworm (Tenebrio molitor) meal (TM) influences digestive enzyme expression, haemolymph parameters or the intestinal microbiota of shrimp juveniles. Shrimps (average initial weight 4.42±0.02 g) were fed five experimental diets where FM protein was gradually substituted by TM protein (0, 25, 50, 75, and 100%). The shrimps were fed four times per day with an amount equivalent to approximately 6% of their biomass for 42 days. The total haemocyte count, protein concentration and prophenoloxidase activity in the haemolymph were not significantly altered (P>0.05) when FM was substituted by TM. However, the agglutinating activity of shrimp serum determined against dog erythrocytes was higher in the shrimp group fed 25% TM. The absolute and specific activities of trypsin, chymotrypsin, lipase, α-amylase and the patterns of proteolytic activities were not affected by the dietary treatments. The shrimp gut bacterial microbiota profile was similar with the genera Pseudoalteromonas, Rubritalea, Ruegeria, Tenacibaculum, and Vibrio detected. These results show that TM is viable alternative for the replacement of FM, without any deleterious effects on expression of key digestive enzymes, gut microbiota or the immune system of the Pacific white shrimp.

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