Methodological approaches used to assess fish gastrointestinal communities

Aquaculture Nutrition: Gut Health, Probiotics and Prebiotics

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 101-127

  Zhou, Zhigang ^a   Yao, Bin ^a   Romero, Jaime ^b   Waines, Paul ^c   Ringø, Einar ^d   Emery, Matthew ^c   Liles, Mark R ^e   Merrifield, Daniel L ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^e AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clone libraries; Culture dependent approaches; Electron microscopy; Fingerprinting methods; Fish gastrointestinal (GI) communities; Fluorescence based methods; Microbial activity; Molecular ecology techniques; Quantitative real time PCR (qPCR)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85099816321     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118897263.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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