Effect of dietary oil from on the growth performance, fillet fatty acid profile and gut microbiome of gilthead Sea bream ().

Background: In the last two decades, research has focused on testing cheaper and sustainable alternatives to fish oil (FO), such as vegetable oils (VO), in aquafeeds. However, FO cannot be entirely replaced by VOs due to their lack of omega-3 (n-3) long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA), particularly eicosapentaenoic (EPA; 20:5n-3) and docosahexaenoic (DHA; 22:6n-3) acids. The oilseed plant, , may have a higher potential to replace FO since it can contains up to 40% of the omega-3 precursors -linolenic acid (ALA; 18:3n-3) and linoleic acid (LA; 18:2n-6).

Nutritional programming improves dietary plant protein utilization in zebrafish Danio rerio.

Nutritional Programming (NP) has been shown to counteract the negative effects of dietary plant protein (PP) by introducing PP at an early age towards enhancement of PP utilization during later life stages. This study explored the effect of NP and its induction time on growth, expression of appetite-stimulating hormones, and any morphological changes in the gut possibly responsible for improved dietary PP utilization. At 3 days post-hatch (dph) zebrafish were distributed into 12 (3 L) tanks, 100 larvae per tank.

The Effects of Dietary Insect Meal from Prepupae on Autochthonous Gut Microbiota of Rainbow Trout ().

This study evaluated the effects of dietary insect meal from larvae on autochthonous gut microbiota of rainbow trout (). Three diets, with increasing levels of insect meal inclusion (10%, 20%, and 30%) and a control diet without insect meal were tested in a 12-week feeding trial. To analyze the resident intestinal microbial communities, the Illumina MiSeq platform for sequencing of 16S rRNA gene and QIIME pipeline were used.