Project description:Mandarin fish Siniperca chuatsi (Basilewsky) (Percichthyidae), as a demersal piscivore, has very specialized feeding habits, for as soon as they start feeding the fry of this fish feed solely on fry of other fish species. In rearing conditions, mandarin fish has been found to accept live prey fish only, and refuse dead prey fish or artificial diets, very little is currently known about the molecular mechanisms of multiple genes which cover different pathways influencing the specialized food habit, such as live prey. We performed transcriptome comparisons between dead prey fish feeders and nonfeeders in mandarin fish. The determination mechanisms of specialized food habit (live prey fish) in mandarin fish could provide some instructions for research of food habit in animals, including mammals.
Project description:Using RNAseq of small RNA libraries isolated from the gill tissue of the Antarctic fish Trematomus bernacchii we have characterized the termal sensitivity of miRNA homologues in these highly stenothermic fish.
Project description:In the context of replacing fish meal and fish oil in feeds for aquaculture, rainbow trout alevins received from first-feeding onwards, one of the three experimental diets: V (100% plant-based), C (mix of FM-FO & plant ingredients) or M (100% FM-FO based). The long term effects of such dietary replacement on the intestinal (mid gut) and hepatic transcriptome were studied in juveniles after a 7-month feeding trial at 7°C.
