Deploying an <i>In Vitro</i> Gut Model to Assay the Impact of the Mannan-Oligosaccharide Prebiotic Bio-Mos on the Atlantic Salmon ( <i>Salmo salar</i> ) Gut Microbiome
Raminta Kazlauskaite, Bachar Cheaib, Joseph L. Humble, Chloe Heys, Umer Zeeshan Ijaz, Stephanie Connelly, William T. Sloan, Julie A. Russell, Laura Martínez-Rubio, John Sweetman, Alex Kitts, Philip McGinnity, Philip Lyons, Martin Llewellyn
Abstract
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 .
Topics & Concepts
PrebioticBiologyMicrobiomeFood scienceGut floraMicrobiologyMicrobial population biologyMetagenomicsSalmoAquacultureBiochemistryBacteriaFish <Actinopterygii>FisheryGeneGeneticsBioinformaticsAquaculture disease management and microbiotaAquaculture Nutrition and GrowthGut microbiota and health