Aquaculture industries would benefit from the cultured organisms conferred with feed supplements for optimal growth and disease resistance. In this study, Prof. Dr. I Nyoman Pugeg Aryantha and colleagues evaluated seven microfungi isolated from rivers or streams in Indonesia for a nutritional profile including protein, lipid, amino acids, fatty acids, and beta-glucan. All isolates had relatively high nutritional content, where the proteins ranging from 31.56–45.58%, lipids 2.22–6.54%, amino acids 11.023–18.881 g/100 g, fatty acids 1.094–5.253%, and beta-glucan 0.170–0.280 g/dry weight. The results indicated that T. harzianum fed with 0.5% and 1.5% could improve white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) post-larvae survival and growth performance. It was found that two dominant bacteria were Gordonia polyisoprenivorans and Croceibacter atlanticus.

Article Citation: Binur, R., Aryantha, I. N. P., & Suantika, G. 2021. Nutritional profiling of microfungi and its effects on the growth performance, bacterial communities, and survival with Vibrio harveyi on white shrimp post-larvae (Litopenaeus vannamei). Aquaculture, Vol 545.
Full paper is published in Aquaculture : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2021.737260

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The dynamic of bacterial population in water culture (Source: Binur et al., 2021)
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