The gastrointestinal (GI) microbiota of vertebrates plays critical roles in nutrition, development, immunity and resistance against invasive pathogens. In the past decade, research of the GI microbiota of mammals has drastically increased our knowledge on the microbiota and their relationship with health and disease. However, our understanding of fish intestinal microbiota is limited. This ...

n this work we have tested the in vivo antiviral activity of type I interferons (IFNs) in Atlantic salmon by injecting presmolts intramuscularly (i.m.) with plasmids encoding IFNa1, IFNb or IFNc under the control of a CMV promoter, and measured expression of antiviral genes in organs and protection against infection with infectious salmon anemia virus (ISAV)infection. Allthree IFN plasmids induced ...

Both nationally and internationally, there is a rising ambition to reduce carbon footprint to fight climate change. However, climate change should not be seen as a solitary challenge as the human population has more than tripled since the 1950ths. We are therefore moving towards the inevitable crossroad where the food needed to sustain humanity and the traditional utilized resources we have ...

Monitoring bacterial communities in a drinking water treatment plant (DWTP) may help to understand their regular operations. Bacterial community dynamics in an advanced full-scale DWTP were analyzed by 16S rRNA metabarcoding, and microbial water quality indicators were determined at nine different stages of potabilization: river water and groundwater intake, decantation, sand filtration, ozonization, ...

Det økende behovet for marine ressurser som ingrediens i fôr har ført til et søk etter nye ressurser, da dagens ressurser ikke lengre er bærekraftig. For å øke utbytte er det foreslått å rette søket lengre ned i næringskjeden. Marine kiselalger er et eksempel på slike organismer. Disse er ikke godt utnyttet i dag, hovedsakelig på grunn av manglende kunnskap rundt teknologi, samt forskning på hvilke ...

Sticklebacks in particular have been suspected to have a role in transmission of E. crassum to its final host, the brown trout. In this study, prevalence and mean abundance of E. crassum in trout have been examined in allopatric and sympatric populations to address the suspected role of sticklebacks in the life cycle of E. crassum. 1106 trout from 22 lakes in the northern parts of Norway were ...

Det økende antall patogene bakteriestammer som utvikler resistens mot dagens kommersielle antibiotika er en av de største truslene mot den globale helsen i vår tid. Infeksjonssykdommer som tidligere kunne behandles med antibiotika har nå nesten blitt umulige å behandle, det er derfor et umiddelbart behov for nye typer antibiotika med nye virkningsmekanismer enn det som allerede eksisterer på markedet. ...

Wear and tear on fishing gear is a sparsely investigated source of microplastic pollution in the sea. In Norway, Danish seine ropes and trawls are the fishing gears that contribute most to this pollution. The main reason for this pollution is that the seine ropes are dragged along the seabed over a considerable distance, creating a friction force that results in high ropes wear. This note reports ...

Mucous membranes such as the gill and skin mucosa in fish protect them against a multitude of environmental factors. At the same time, changes in the molecular composition of mucus may provide valuable information about the interaction of the fish with their environment, as well as their health and welfare. In this study, the metabolite profiles of the plasma, skin and gill mucus of freshwater ...

It is well known that healthy gut microbiota is essential to promote host health and well-being. The intestinal microbiota of endothermic animals as well as fish are classified as autochthonous or indigenous, when they are able to colonize the host’s epithelial surface or are associated with the microvilli, or as allochthonous or transient (associated with digesta or are present in the lumen). ...