Micro-organisms in the digestive tract of fish as indicators of feeding condition and pollution
Microbiological studies of the digestive tracts of flounder (Platichthys flesus), burbot (Lota lota), herring (Clupea harengus), cod (Gadus morhua), smelt (Osmerus eperlanus), black sculpin (Myoxocephalus scorpius), pike-perch (Lucioperca lucioperca), whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus), ruff (Acerina c...
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ftlithuaniansrc:oai:elaba:5108648 2023-05-15T15:47:16+02:00 Micro-organisms in the digestive tract of fish as indicators of feeding condition and pollution Šyvokienė, Janina Mickėnienė, Liongina 1999 http://lmavb.lvb.lt/LMAVB:ELABAPDB5108648&prefLang=en_US eng eng http://lmavb.lvb.lt/LMAVB:ELABAPDB5108648&prefLang=en_US ICES journal of marine science, 1999, Vol. 56 Suppl.1, p. 147-149 ISSN 1054-3139 Digestive tract Fish Micro-organisms Pollution info:eu-repo/semantics/article 1999 ftlithuaniansrc 2021-12-02T00:59:20Z Microbiological studies of the digestive tracts of flounder (Platichthys flesus), burbot (Lota lota), herring (Clupea harengus), cod (Gadus morhua), smelt (Osmerus eperlanus), black sculpin (Myoxocephalus scorpius), pike-perch (Lucioperca lucioperca), whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus), ruff (Acerina cernua), and plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) from the Lithuanian coast (Baltic Sea) were carried out in 1995. Although heterotrophic bacteria predominated in the bacteriocoenosis of the tested fish, proteolytic and amylolytic bacteria were isolated. Hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria were detected in high abundance in all tested species, but counts were highest in autumn with a maximum of about 3 x 10(5) g(-1) in ruff. Oil products taken up by fish with their food may be partly degraded by enzymes of micro-organisms present in the intestines. We argue that fish with a well-developed intestinal microflora have greater opportunity to adapt to changing nutritional substrates and to assimilate food with high efficiency, and that increasing environmental pollution by xenobiotics may affect the bacteriocoenosis of the digestive system. Article in Journal/Newspaper Burbot Gadus morhua Lota lota Acerina lota Ruff LSRC VL (Lithuanian Social Research Centre Virtual Library) |
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Microbiological studies of the digestive tracts of flounder (Platichthys flesus), burbot (Lota lota), herring (Clupea harengus), cod (Gadus morhua), smelt (Osmerus eperlanus), black sculpin (Myoxocephalus scorpius), pike-perch (Lucioperca lucioperca), whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus), ruff (Acerina cernua), and plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) from the Lithuanian coast (Baltic Sea) were carried out in 1995. Although heterotrophic bacteria predominated in the bacteriocoenosis of the tested fish, proteolytic and amylolytic bacteria were isolated. Hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria were detected in high abundance in all tested species, but counts were highest in autumn with a maximum of about 3 x 10(5) g(-1) in ruff. Oil products taken up by fish with their food may be partly degraded by enzymes of micro-organisms present in the intestines. We argue that fish with a well-developed intestinal microflora have greater opportunity to adapt to changing nutritional substrates and to assimilate food with high efficiency, and that increasing environmental pollution by xenobiotics may affect the bacteriocoenosis of the digestive system. |
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Šyvokienė, Janina Mickėnienė, Liongina |
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Šyvokienė, Janina Mickėnienė, Liongina |
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Šyvokienė, Janina |
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Micro-organisms in the digestive tract of fish as indicators of feeding condition and pollution |
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Micro-organisms in the digestive tract of fish as indicators of feeding condition and pollution |
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Micro-organisms in the digestive tract of fish as indicators of feeding condition and pollution |
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Micro-organisms in the digestive tract of fish as indicators of feeding condition and pollution |
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Micro-organisms in the digestive tract of fish as indicators of feeding condition and pollution |
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micro-organisms in the digestive tract of fish as indicators of feeding condition and pollution |
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Burbot Gadus morhua Lota lota Acerina lota Ruff |
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Burbot Gadus morhua Lota lota Acerina lota Ruff |
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ICES journal of marine science, 1999, Vol. 56 Suppl.1, p. 147-149 ISSN 1054-3139 |
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