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Microbial communities associated with early stages of intensively reared orange‐spotted grouper ( E pinephelus coioides )
Author(s) -
Sun YunZhang,
Yang HongLing,
Ling ZeChun,
Ye JiDan
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
aquaculture research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.646
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1365-2109
pISSN - 1355-557X
DOI - 10.1111/are.12167
Subject(s) - biology , grouper , epinephelus , oyster , hatchery , larva , bacteria , zoology , microbiology and biotechnology , fishery , ecology , fish <actinopterygii> , genetics
The gut microbiota plays key roles in the health and general welfare of fish larvae, the present study characterized the bacterial communities associated with grouper E pinephelus coioides larvae during a period of 22 days post hatch ( DPH ) in an intensive hatchery using both cultivation‐based and cultivation‐independent approaches. Both approaches confirmed that bacteria were present in the gut of larvae before and after the onset of exogenous feeding, and the number of cultiviable bacteria increased gradually from 2 DPH to 22 DPH . A more complex bacterial profile was present in larvae fed fertilizer oyster eggs for 4 days (8 DPH ), probably as a result of the onset of exogenous feeding. Interestingly, similar internal microbiota were observed in larvae fed fertilized oyster eggs for 4 days (8 DPH ) and rotifers for 2 weeks (22 DPH ), although different microbial communities were present in the two feeds. This might suggest that the gut environment of E. coioides larvae selects for a common microbiota, which is more closely related with the rearing water than the two feeds. Therefore, bacterial community of the rearing water may play a critical role in the establishment of gut microbiota of fish larvae and more attention should be paid to its practical modulation by using probiotics. In addition, some potentially beneficial bacteria, such as Lactococcus spp., were the major components of the microbiota associated with fertilized oyster eggs, while these bacteria were not detected in larvae samples.