Combined intestinal microbiota and transcriptomic analysis to investigate the effect of different stocking densities on the ability of Pacific white shrimp () to utilize .

Aiming to investigate the impact of different stocking densities on the ability of Pacific white shrimp () to utilize (CHL), a 3 × 2 factorial design stocking experiment was used in this study. Specifically, shrimp was fed with two dietary protein sources (fishmeal [FM] and CHL) at low (LSD; 100 per m), medium (MSD; 200 per m) and high (HSD; 300 per m) stocking densities for 8 weeks. The growth performance and resistance to (1.