Bacteriophages have been proposed as an alternative to antibiotic usage and several studies on their application in aquaculture have been reported. This review highlights progress to date on phage therapies for the following fish and shellfish diseases and associated pathogens: hemorrhagic septicemia (Aeromonas hydrophila) in loaches, furunculosis (Aeromonas salmonicida) in trout and salmon, ed...

The metabolic peptide hormone nesfatin-1 has been linked to the reproductive axis in fishes. The purpose of this study was to determine how energy availability after spawning affects plasma levels of nesfatin-1, the metabolic peptide hormone ghrelin, and sex steroid hormones in rematuring female rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). To limit reproductive maturation, a group of female trout was f...

Estrogen hormones interact with cellular ERs to exert their biological effects in vertebrate animals. Similar to other animals, fishes have two distinct ER subtypes, ERα (NR3A1) and ERβ (NR3A2). The ERβ subtype is found as two different isoforms in several fish species because of a gene duplication event. Although predicted, two different isoforms of ERα have not been demonstrated in any fish s...

Oxidative stress, biochemical and enzymological biomarkers were compared among rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum), brown trout, Salmo trutta (L.), and grayling, Thymallus thymallus (L.) to determine the mechanisms of hepatotoxicity caused by chloramine-T bath treatment. The fish were exposed to chloramine-T at a concentration of 9 g m for 20 min three times daily every three days. The...

A colony of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in a decentralized aquatic animal facility was noted to have an increase in morbidity and mortality (from 4 or 5 fish each month to 3 or 4 fish daily) approximately 2 wk after experimental procedures began. The primary clinical signs were erratic swimming behavior and 'flashing' of fish against surfaces within housing enclosures. Moribund and norm...

A cDNA encoding a new GH family protein expressed in the rainbow trout (Oncorhyncus mykiss) pituitary gland was identified. Because the deduced amino acid sequence of this cDNA shares 56% homology with rainbow trout (rt) somatolactin (rtSL), we named it as rtSL-like protein (rtSLP). Comparison of the amino acid sequences of rtGH, rainbow trout prolactin (rtPRL), and rtSLP revealed that rtSLP sh...

Much has been written about introduced rainbow trout interbreeding and outcompeting native cutthroat trout. However, the specific mechanisms by which rainbow trout and their hybrids outcompete cutthroat trout have not been thoroughly explored, and most of the published data is limited to lotic ecosystems. Samples of Snake River cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii bouvieri), the rainbow-cutthr...

Multiple Hemoglobin Components in Cutthroat and Rainbow Trout Multiple hemoglobin components in fish is a well-documented phenomenon, with cutthroat trout having twelve (Figure 1a) and rainbow trout having nine (Figure 1b) hemoglobin components (Braman et al.1977). A high-resolution starch gel electrophoresis method was developed to resolve eight negatively charged hemoglobin components from bo...

proper feeding is necessary to have appropriate growth, health and also to increase resistance to inappropriate condition such as stressors and diseases. therefore mineral and vitamin supplements are added to fish diet to improve its growth and health. food supplements have different roles in diet. these cause better food metabolism, higher hardness and strength of bones, better ionic exchanges...

Viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (VHSV) is an enveloped non-segmented, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA virus that Viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (VHSV) is an enveloped non-segmented, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA virus that belongs to the Novirhabdovirus genus of the family  Rhabdoviridae. This virus causes economically significant diseases of farmed rainbow trout, in Turkey, wh...