Project description:This study was performed to investigate the effect of camelina oil-based diets on the immune function of Atlantic cod, as measured by gene expression in spleen. Atlantic cod were fed with one of three practical diets (three tanks per diet): a control diet using herring oil as a lipid source (FO diet), and two experimental diets using vegetable oil from Camelina sativa to replace 40% or 80% of herring oil (40CO and 80CO diets). We studied both the effect of the diet alone on basal spleen gene expression levels, as well as the effect of the diet after fish were injected with the synthetic double-stranded RNA polyriboinosinic polyribocytidylic acid (pIC), which mimics a viral immune stimulus.
