Bacteriological quality of individually quick frozen (IQF) shrimp products produced from aquacultured tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon) has been analysed in terms of aerobic plate count (APC), coliforms, Escherichia coli, coagulase-positive staphylococci, Salmonella, and Listeria monocytogenes. Eight hundred forty-six samples of raw, peeled, and deveined tail-on (RPTO), 928 samples of cooked, peel...

The aim of this review is to present the shrimps (wild and cultured) lipid composition (focusing on the presence of lipid classes commonly found in shrimps) and carotenoids, as well as the PUFA/SFA, ω-3/ω-6 and EPA/DHA fatty acid ratios, in order to evaluate their fat nutritional value. Furthermore, certain aspects of the structures of natural phospholipids in the above mentioned organisms will...

Background Nowadays in countries all over Europe more and more people consume shrimps and other types of sea food. Consumption of even one or two shrimps can induce anaphylactic reaction in patient with allergy. In this work our aim is to present a case of patient admitted to the Department and Clinic of Allergy, Clinical Immunology and Internal Diseases to diagnose and confirm allergy to shrimp.

Many freshwater shrimps (Decapoda, Caridea) have amphidromous life histories, with extended planktonic larval development in the sea. Larvae either are hatched upstream to drift down to the sea or are carried and released there by females. After development, postlarvae (juveniles) must migrate back up to their adult freshwater habitat. An amphidromous life cycle thus involves long distance migr...

We present the first global assessment of extinction risk for a major group of freshwater invertebrates, caridean shrimps. The risk of extinction for all 763 species was assessed using the IUCN Red List criteria that include geographic ranges, habitats, ecology and past and present threats. The Indo-Malayan region holds over half of global species diversity, with a peak in Indo-China and southe...

Li X.Y., Li Z.-X., Lin H., Samee H. (2011): Effect of power ultrasound on the immunoactivity and texture changes of shrimp (Penaeus vannamei). Czech J. Food Sci., 29: 508–514. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of power ultrasound on the allergenicity and texture properties of shrimp (Penaeus vannamei). For this purpose, raw and boiled shrimps were treated with power ultrasound (30...

PAHs were measured in water, sediment, and shrimps of Estero de Urias, an estuary in Sinaloa, Mexico, during the rainy and dry seasons, and analyzed for eleven PAHs routinely detected in samples. Phenanthrene was the most dominant congener in the water, sediment, and shrimp samples comprising about 38, 24, and 25%, respectively, of the eleven PAHs detected, followed by pyrene and naphthalene in...

The effect of different levels of dissolved oxygen (DO) and a decreased temperature combined with severe hypoxia were studied in the blue shrimp Litopenaeus stylirostris in relation to molt stage. In the first experiment, shrimps were submitted to DO concentrations of 5 to 1 mg l. Osmoregulatory capacity (OC) was measured in shrimps at molt stage C after 6, 24, or 48 h of exposure. No mortality...

Immune related genes like penaeidins have been characterized and the sequence diversity among penaeidins from various shrimp isolates are well documented. However, no attempt has been made to study the differential expression and sequence variations of these genes in Indian context. Genes coding for penaeidin was PCR amplified and sequenced from hemocyte cDNA of wild caught Penaeus monodon shri...

The aim of this study was to assess the relative contribution of natural productivity and compound food to the growth of the juvenile blue shrimp Litopenaeus stylirostris reared in a biofloc system. Two experiments were carried out based on the same protocol with three treatments: clear water with experimental diet (CW), biofloc with experimental diet (BF) and biofloc unfed (BU). Shrimp surviva...