Plant-Based Diets Induce Transcriptomic Changes in Muscle of Zebrafish and Atlantic Salmon.

ABSTRACT: With the expansion of the aquaculture industry in the last two decades, there has been a large increase in the use of plant ingredients in aquafeeds, which has created new challenges in fish growth, health and welfare. Fish muscle growth is an important trait that is strongly affected by diet, but our knowledge on the effect of plant protein-based diets on global gene expression in muscle is still scant. The present study evaluated nutrigenomic effects of the inclusion of proteins from pea, soy and wheat into aquafeeds, compared to a control diet with fishmeal as the main protein source using the zebrafish model by RNA-seq; these results were extended to an important aquaculture species by analyzing selected differentially expressed genes identified in the zebrafish model on on-growing Atl

SUBMITTER: Dhanasiri AKS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7642599 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature