Early nutritional programming affects liver transcriptome in diploid and triploid Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To ensure sustainability of aquaculture, plant-based ingredients are being used in feeds to replace marine-derived products. However, plants contain secondary metabolites which can affect food intake and nutrient utilisation of fish. The application of nutritional stimuli during early development can induce long-term changes in animal physiology. Recently, we successfully used this approach to improve the utilisation of plant-based diets in diploid and triploid Atlantic salmon. In the present study we explored the molecular mechanisms occurring in the liver of salmon when challenged with a plant-based diet in order to determine the metabolic processes affected, and the effect of ploidy.

Results

Microarray analysis revealed that nutritional history had a major impa

SUBMITTER: Vera LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5693578 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature