Aquaculture Nutrition: Prebiotics and their Applications
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Aquatic Animals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 3430
Special Issue Editors
Interests: aquaculture, fish physiology; fish nutrition; feed intake regulation; alternative ingredients; functional ingredients; prebiotics; probiotics; fish health and welfare
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: aquaculture; fish nutrition; dietary carbohydrates; fish physiology; alternative ingredients; functional ingredients; prebiotics; probiotics; fish health and welfare; nutrition and gut microbiota
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the last few years, with the increased demand for aquaculture-derived food, the ban on the use of antibiotics as prophylactic agents and growth promoters, and consumer pressure for healthier and sustainable aquaculture production, the use of functional ingredients has begun to be increasingly explored. In this scenario, prebiotics have appeared as a sustainable and appealing alternative. Thus, recently, great efforts have been made in the study of prebiotic use in aquaculture fish and shellfish production. While some topics such as the effects on growth and disease resistance are better studied, other topics, such as the effects on glucose or lipid metabolism or on oxidative stress, are less studied. The knowledge provided by mammalian studies shows us the importance of further exploring these topics. Moreover, factors such as the age and size response, timing and duration of prebiotic administration, rearing temperature effect (of great importance in those animals due to the surrounding environment where they are reared) or prebiotic dosages remain to be further explored.
The interactive effect of prebiotics and probiotics is also a matter of interest that deserves to be better explored in fish and shellfish, since prebiotics potentiate probiotics’ effects.
This Special Issue welcomes contributions on these topics as literature reviews, original research manuscripts or short communications. Topics of special interest include manuscripts on the combination of prebiotics and species that have not yet been studied, the mechanisms of prebiotics’ action, or the above-mentioned understudied topics.
Dr. Inês Guerreiro
Dr. Paula Enes
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fish
- functional ingredients
- growth performance
- gut microbiota
- health
- immune response
- shellfish
- symbiotic
