Abstract
We have tested a microbial preparation with probiotic effects (PSI; Sorbial A/S DANISCO) on the calanoid copepod Acartia tonsa (Dana) development time and reproduction effectiveness in culture. The hypotheses were that PSI increases the productivity and quality of copepods in culture (increased egg production and hatching success, HS). This was carried out because the use of copepods as live prey in aquaculture could increase the number of fish successfully raised through their entire life cycle. However, the availability of copepods is limited by their difficulty to be effectively raised. Our results show that the addition of PSI to the algal food increased the individual size of the adult females and their egg production. The PSI, together with Rhodomonas salina, also increased the HS of the eggs produced by PSI-treated females. These effects were observed despite that the biochemical analysis of the PSI revealed that it is a nutritionally poor food lacking essential fatty acids, and hence it cannot be used alone to raise copepods but instead as a food additive. This is the first demonstration that the effectiveness of copepod culturing can be improved using microbial preparations as a food additive.
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The present work was supported by GESS (Graduate School of Stress Studies, The Eur-Oceans Network of Excellence) and Roskilde University PhD grant to Guillaume Drillet, and The Danish Agency for Science Technology and Innovation no. 272-08-0577 to BWH.
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Drillet, G., Rabarimanantsoa, T., Frouël, S. et al. Do Inactivated Microbial Preparations Improve Life History Traits of the Copepod Acartia tonsa?. Mar Biotechnol 13, 831–836 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10126-010-9348-1
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