The in vitro effects of four heat-inactivated bacterial species on the cellular innate immune responses of the gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata L.) were investigated. Head-kidney leucocytes were isolated and incubated for 30 min with two bacteria isolated from seabream skin (Pdp11 and 51M6; members of the Vibrionaceae and in the genus Shewanella) and two bacteria used as probiotics in humans an...

This study describes the first isolation of Staphylococcus epidermidis from gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata), reared in the southwest of Turkey. During the spring of 2003 (April-May), the infection appeared in juvenile gilthead sea bream (3-5 g) in a net cage. The outbreak occurred after a sudden increase of water temperature in the middle of April. The fish losses were up to 12 % in one day....

mercury is the most toxic heavy metal in the aquatic ecosystems which originates both from natural and industrial resources and is ultimately deposited in sediments as methyl mercury. this metal is quickly transferred through the food chain and accumulated in organisms. in this study, the human health risk due to consumption of mullet ( liza aurata ) in the caspian sea, were evaluated by measur...

To shed light on the putative host-mediated lifestyle of the quintessential marine symbiont Aliivibrio fischeri, and on the symbiosis versus potentially pathogenic features of bacteria associated with farmed fish, we report the draft genome sequence of A. fischeri strain 5LC, a bacterium retrieved from gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) larvae.

In this study, the effects of exposure to pyrene, fluorene and a mixture of selected polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) upon branchial Na (+)/K (+)-ATPase was investigated in juvenile seabream Sparus aurata in a 96 h in vivo experiment. No significant effect was found, and thus it was concluded that branchial Na(+)/K (+)-ATPase is probably not affected by PAH.

This study presents the first comparative BAC map of the gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata), a highly valuated marine aquaculture fish species in the Mediterranean. High-throughput end sequencing of a BAC library yielded 92,468 reads (60.6  Mbp). Comparative mapping was achieved by anchoring BAC end sequences to the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) genome. BACs that were consis...