Metabolomics Responses of Pearl Oysters (Pinctada fucata martensii) Fed a Formulated Diet Indoors and Cultured With Natural Diet Outdoors.

ABSTRACT: Natural disasters and environmental pollution are the main problems in traditional offshore cultivation. While culturing pearl oysters through industrial farming can avoid these problems, food availability in this case is limited. This study compares the metabolomics responses of pearl oysters, Pinctada fucata martensii, fed a formulated diet indoors with those of oysters cultured with natural diet outdoors by using a gas chromatography time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC-TOF/MS)-based metabolomics approach. The animals were divided into two groups as follows: the experimental group (EG) was fed a formulated diet indoors and the control group (CG) was cultured with natural diet outdoors. After 45 days of feeding, the survival rate of EG was significantly higher than that of CG. The

SUBMITTER: Yang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6060569 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature