Deploying an In Vitro Gut Model to Assay the Impact of the Mannan-Oligosaccharide Prebiotic Bio-Mos on the Atlantic Salmon ( Salmo salar) Gut Microbiome

• Published in: Microbiology Spectrum
• Main Authors: Kazlauskaite, Raminta, Cheaib, Bachar, Humble, Joseph, Heys, Chloe, Ijaz, Umer Zeeshan, Connelly, Stephanie, Sloan, William T., Russell, Julie, Martinez-Rubio, Laura, Sweetman, John, Kitts, Alex, McGinnity, Philip, Lyons, Philip, Llewellyn, Martin S.
• Other Authors: Kormas, Konstantinos Aristomenis, UKRI | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Science Foundation Ireland, Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre, UKRI | Natural Environment Research Council, Alltech
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Society for Microbiology 2022
• Subjects: Atlantic salmon; Salmo salar
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.01953-21; https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/spectrum.01953-21

In this paper we report the results of the impact of a prebiotic (alpha-MOS supplementation) on microbial communities, using an in vitro simulator of the gut microbial environment of the Atlantic salmon. Our data suggest that Bio-Mos may be of value in salmonid production as it enhances volatile fatty acid production by the microbiota from salmon pyloric ceca and correlates with a significant shift in microbial community composition with observed increase in lactic acid producing Carnobacterium .