Dietary sodium alginate administration to enhance the non-specific immune responses, and disease resistance of the juvenile grouper Epinephelus fuscoguttatus

Aquaculture

Volumn 277, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 66-72

  Chiu, Shieh Tsung ^a   Tsai, Rung Ting ^a   Hsu, Jung Pin ^b   Liu, Chun Hung ^a   Cheng, Winton ^a  

^a NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dietary administration; Epinephelus fuscoguttatus; Innate immunity; Iridovirus; Sodium alginate; Streptococcus sp.

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL DIET; BACTERIUM; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; JUVENILE; PERCIFORM; VIRUS;

EPINEPHELINAE; EPINEPHELUS FUSCOGUTTATUS; IRIDOVIRUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS SP.;

EID: 41549135049     PISSN: 00448486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2008.01.032     Document Type: Article

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