Intestinal yeasts were isolated from 39 fish belonging to five different species of the Mugil genus. Among 42 isolates, 38 different strains belonging to 15 genera and 25 species were identified and characterized for adhesion to epitelial fish mucus, antagonistic properties against bacterial pathogens, production of enzymatic activity and biochemical properties.A great variability was found in ...

Fishborne zoonotic metacercariae have not been reported from brackish water and marine fish from Vietnam waters although these parasites are common in the country's freshwater fish. Both wild-caught and cultured grouper (Epinephelus coioides and Epinephelus bleekeri), and mullet (Mugil cephalus) from brackish and marine waters located in Khanh Hoa province in central coastal Vietnam were examin...

Abstract Laminarin is a source of immunostimulants and antioxidative biomolecules involved in supporting the performance health aquatic animals. Hence, this study investigated growth performance, intestinal morphology, blood biomarkers, immune response Thinlip Grey Mullet ( Liza ramada ) fed dietary laminarin. For 60 days, mullets were diets supplemented with laminarin at 0, 200, 400, 600, 800 ...

The Egyptian jackal (Canis aureus lupaster) has hitherto been considered a large, rare subspecies of the golden jackal (C. aureus). It has maintained its taxonomical status to date, despite studies demonstrating morphological similarities to the grey wolf (C. lupus). We have analyzed 2055 bp of mitochondrial DNA from C. a. lupaster and investigated the similarity to C. aureus and C. lupus. Thro...

We evaluated the survival of Streptococcus agalactiae from naturally infected wild mullet (Liza klunzingeri) and experimentally infected Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) frozen at 20 and 70 jC, respectively, for an extended period of time. The brain, eye, head kidney, and intestine of individually frozen wild mullet (N = 22), culture positive for S. agalactiae from fresh tissues following a...

Oocyte growth and development in the striped mullet, Mugil cephalus, were examined during the period of rapid ovarian recrudescence that precedes spawning in coastal waters of northeast Florida. Based on the de novo appearance of yolk proteins detected by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, the oocyte si2e corresponding to the onset of vitellogenic growth was determined to be 0.18 mm (diameter)...