Journal
FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 86, Issue -, Pages 35-45Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsi.2018.10.034
Keywords
MOS; Prebiotics; MALT; Amberjack; Ectoparasites; Cytokines
Funding
- Agencia Canaria de investigacion, Innovacion y Sociedad de la Inforrnacion de la Consejeria de Economia, Industria, Comercio y Conocimiento
- European social funding, Programa Operativo Integrado de Canarias 2014-2020
- European Union [603121]
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The main objective of this study was to determine the effect of two forms of mannan oligosaccharides (MOS: BioMos (R) and cMOS: Actigen (R), Alltech Inc, USA) and their combination on greater amberjack (Serbia dumerili) growth performance and feed efficiency, immune parameters and resistance against ectoparasite (Neobenedenia girellae) infection. Fish were fed for 90 days with 5 g kg(-1) MOS, 2 g kg(-1) cMOS or a combination of both prebiotics, in a Seriola commercial base diet (Skretting, Norway). At the end of the feeding period, no differences were found in growth performance or feed efficiency. Inclusion of MOS also had no effect on lysozyme activity in skin mucus and serum, but the supplementation of diets with cMOS induced a significant increase of serum bactericidal activity. Dietary cMOS also reduced significantly greater amberjack skin parasite levels, parasite total length and the number of parasites detected per unit of fish surface following a cohabitation challenge with N. girellae, whereas no effect of MOS was detected on these parameters. Of 17 immune genes studied cMOS dietary inclusion up-regulated hepcidin, defensin, Mx protein, interferon-gamma (IFN gamma), mucin-2 (MUC-2), interleukin-1 beta (IL-1B), IL-10 and immunoglobulin-T (IgT) gene expression in gills and/or skin. MOS supplementation had a larger impact on spleen and head kidney gene expression, where piscidin, defensin, iNOS, Mx protein, interferons, IL-1 beta, IL-10, IL-17 and IL-22 were all upregulated. In posterior gut dietary MOS and cMOS both induced IL-10, IgM and IgT, but with MOS also increasing piscidin, MUC-2, and IL-1 beta whilst cMOS induced hepcidin, defensin and IFN gamma. In general, the combination of MOS and cMOS resulted in fewer or lower increases in all tissues, possibly due to an overstimulation effect. The utilization of cMOS at the dose used here has clear benefits on parasite resistance in greater amberjack, linked to upregulation of a discrete set of immune genes in mucosal tissues.
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