Data/hora: 05/06/2024 08:11:35

Provedor de dados: | 103
País: | Brazil
Título: | Composition of gastrointestinal content, protease and lipase activities in summer and winter of four freshwater siluriforms (Teleostei: Actinopterygii) with two different feeding habits
Autores: | Almeida,Ana Paula Gottlieb; Zardo,Everton Luis; Toni,Candida; Behr,Everton Rodolfo; Silva,Leila Picolli da; Vieira,João Paes; Loro,Vania Lúcia; Baldisserotto,Bernardo.
Data: | 2018-01-01
Ano: | 2018
Palavras-chave: | Chymotrypsin; Fish; Lipase; Pepsin; Trypsin.
Resumo: | ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to determine the composition of gastrointestinal content and protease and lipase activities in summer and winter as well as to evaluate the relationship between digestive enzyme activity and centesimal composition of gastrointestinal content and feeding habits of two omnivorous species, Rhamdia quelen (Quoy &amp; Gaimard, 1824) and Pimelodus maculatus (LaCèpede, 1803), and of two detritivorous species, Loricariichthys anus (Valenciennes, 1835) and Hypostomus commersoni (Valenciennes, 1836). The activities of pepsin, trypsin, chymotrypsin, and lipase, and the levels of proteins and lipids in the gastrointestinal tract, were evaluated. The enzyme activities were not related to the centesimal composition of gastrointestinal content or feeding habits. This finding could be associated with the variations of nutrient availability over time in the environment, as was observed in the centesimal composition of food ingested by the fish in summer and winter. The analyzed enzymes exhibited a constitutive character in these species; that is, the digestive enzymes are always available in the gastrointestinal tract to digest any food that the fish may find as an adaptation to better utilize the nutrients available in the environment in winter and summer.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-46702018000100322
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia
Relação: | 10.3897/zoologia.35.e13286
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Zoologia (Curitiba)  v.35 2018
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess