Table 1 Body weight (BW, g) of gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata) (GSB) under the different experimental conditions.

From: Impact of the diet in the gut microbiota after an inter-species microbial transplantation in fish

 

Time after intestinal microbiota transplant

7 days

16 days

36 days

Fasted GSB*

524.2 ± 41.7a

536.8 ± 49.0a

–

GSB fed GSB diet

608.7 ± 106.8ab

668.7 ± 59.9b

752.4 ± 72.8

GSB fed salmon diet

688.0 ± 73.9b

740.3 ± 84.6b

769.4 ± 120.8

  1. The days in the table header indicate the number of days after the intestinal microbiota transplant (IMT) from donor Atlantic salmon.
  2. Values are represented as mean ± SD (n = 6 fish individuals per group; n = 7 at 36 days). Significant differences among the three experimental groups at days 7 and 16 are indicated in the same row by the different superscript letters (one-way ANOVA, with Tukey’s range post-hoc test; P ≤ 0.05). There were no differences regarding diet after the IMT (GSB fed GSB diet vs. GSB fed salmon diet; Student’s t-test; P > 0.05).
  3. *Fasted GSB were not subjected to the IMT and were used as a control to assess the effect of AMs over time and to observe what microbiota profile was recovered in the absence of the influence of feed: in that case, the times 7 and 16 days (post-IMT) correspond to 8 and 17 days post-AMs respectively. The two other groups of fish were submitted to the IMT after which they were fed either the GSB diet or the salmon diet.
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