The Indian mackerel (Rastrelliger kanagurta) is one of the commercial pelagic fish in the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea. In the current research, food preference index (FP), fullness index (FI), and stomach contents of Rastrelliger kanagurta were evaluated to assess the quantity and type of food which this species consumes in the study area. The samples were collected randomly from Bandar - Abbas a...

canistel (pouteria campechiana) is an underutilized fruit tree species found in many parts of the world. the objective of this study was to evaluate suitability of canistel fruit meal (cfm) as a feed ingredient for broiler chickens. giving completely randomize design, ninety broiler chickens in 30 floor pens received one of five diets ad libitum from day 21 to 42. the nutritionally balanced con...

The gut microbiota plays important roles in proper gut function and can contribute to or help prevent disease. Whole grains, including oats, constitute important sources of nutrients for the gut microbiota and contribute to a healthy gut microbiome. In particular, whole grains provide NSP and resistant starch, unsaturated TAG and complex lipids, and phenolics. The composition of these constitue...

Drosophila provides a useful model system for studies of the mechanisms involved in regulation of internal ion levels in response to variations in dietary salt load. This study assessed whether alterations in Na(+) and K(+) transport by the gut of larval D. melanogaster reared on salt-rich diets contribute to haemolymph ionoregulation. Na(+) and K(+) fluxes across the isolated guts of third ins...

BACKGROUND Our current understanding of the composition and stability of the human distal gut microbiota is based largely on studies of infants and adults living in developed countries. In contrast, little is known about the gut microbiota and its variation over time in older children and adolescents, especially in developing countries. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We compared the diversity...

The establishment of the early-life gut microbiota plays an important role in fish development and influences host's health status growth performance. Different rearing conditions can impact initial colonization microbiota, while addition probiotics may also affect such colonization. However, how this larvae survival remains largely unexplored. In study, 3-day old Nile tilapia embryos were hatc...

The brain is among the most energetically costly organs in vertebrate body, while size of varies within species. expensive-tissue hypothesis (ETH) predicts that increasing another organ, such as gut, should compensate for cost a small brain. Here, ETH was tested by analyzing relationship between variation and digestive tract length Swelled-vented frog ( Feirana quadranus ). A total 125 individu...

BACKGROUND The human gut microbiota interacts closely with human diet and physiology. To better understand the mechanisms behind this relationship, gut microbiome research relies on complementing human studies with manipulations of animal models, including non-human primates. However, due to unique aspects of human diet and physiology, it is likely that host-gut microbe interactions operate dif...

Previous studies have paid much attention to the associations between high intake of meat and host health. Our previous study showed that the intake of meat proteins can maintain a more balanced composition of gut bacteria as compared to soy protein diet. However, the associations between dietary protein source, gut bacteria, and host health were still unclear. In this study, we collected colon...