Dietary prebiotic and probiotics for pacu Piaractus mesopotamicus (Holmberg, 1887): use and interactions

• Grant number: 09/04565-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2010
• End date: February 29, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Fishery Resources and Fishery Engineering - Aquaculture
• Principal Investigator: José Eurico Possebon Cyrino
• Grantee: Brunno da Silva Cerozi
• Host Institution: Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Economical development, population increase and consequent increased food consumption, bring the need for intensification of aquaculture aiming higher productivity to meed increased demand for seafood. As consequence of this intensification, occurrence of epizootic breakdowns in production systems connected to stressing conditions (stocking rate, handling, transport etc.) are not longer a possibility, but shear reality. Ruptures of physiological homeostasis hampers fish immune system and so innocuous, cosmopolitan microorganisms may become pathogenic to immunodepressed fish, causing sizable economic losses, either with labor, mortality, use of medicines etc. The present project aims determining the effectiveness in the use prebiotic and/or probiotic dietary immunostimulants for juvenile pacu "Piaractus mesopotamicus" (Holmberg, 1887) before environmental and pathogenic agents, measuring immunological alterations and performance of the species. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

CEROZI, B. S.; ZANON, R. B.; SILVA, T. S. C.; CYRINO, J. E. P.. Combination of dietary -glucan and Bacillus subtilis as a potential synbiotic for pacu Piaractus mesopotamicus (Holmberg, 1887). Journal of Applied Ichthyology, v. 33, n. 3, p. 563-565, JUN 2017. (09/04565-7, 11/07360-7)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

CEROZI, Brunno da Silva. Dietary prebiotics and probiotics, performance and health of pacu juvenile (Piaractus mesopotamicus (Holmberg, 1887). 2012. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALA/BC) Piracicaba.