Fish meal is the major source of animal protein in feed for cultured salmonid fish, but its availability is limited and it must eventually be replaced by alternative protein-rich feed ingredients. Zygomycetes (Rhizopus oryzae) is a fungus with protein-rich biomass that could replace fish meal protein in fish feed. Using an 1 H NMR spectroscopy approach, we studied the metabolic pattern in liver tissues of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) fed a commercial diet with unknown composition (ST), a diet with all protein from fish meal (FM) and a diet with most of the protein from zygomycetes biomass (FZ). No significant difference (p C 0.05) was found in spectral data between FM and FZ using the OPLS-DA fitted model. However, other models showed that diet ST clearly differed (p \ 0.05) from diets FM and FZ. Signals for acetate, b-alanine, choline, creatine, formate, glucose, inosine, lysine, SN-glycero-3-phosphocholine and two unknown metabolites were higher in fish fed diets FM and FZ than in fish fed diet ST. These results show that the metabolic profile in liver of Arctic charr will remain unchanged if fish meal protein is replaced with zygomycete protein, suggesting similar physiological responses to both feed ingredients. In contrast, feeding a commercial diet altered the metabolic fingerprint compared with diets FZ and FM, suggesting important differences in ingredient composition and the physiological response to this diet.

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Clostridium chauvoei is one of the deadly micro-organism that causes disease in cattle and sheep. We tested Clostridium chauvoei on different culture media, physio-biochemical agents and antibiotics. The best grwoth of organism was observed on blood and nutrient agar at pH 7.2-7.5, and temperature in between 37-40ºC. No effect of centrifugation was observed. Fourteen different antibiotics were tested against the Clostridium chauvoei. Highly effective antibiotics were chloramphenicol, tetracycline, baquiloprim/sulphadimidine, erythromycin, gentamicin, compound sulphonamides.

The presence of harmful microbes may negatively influence semen quality. Antibiotic used in the semen extender should be evaluated in order to prevent contamination and infertility. In this study, Antibiogram evaluation of Micrococcus luteus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus epidermidis and Staphylococcus intermedius were detected from frozen semen of cattle. Different antibiotics such as amikacin, ampicillin, amoxicillin, cephalexin, erythromycin, gentamicin, neomycin, ofloxacin and sulphamethoxazole/trimethoprim were tested against the isolated bacterial species. Ofloxacin, amikacin, cephalexin and amoxicillin were highly effective against Micrococcus luteus. The organism was found equally effective to erythromycin, gentamycin and neomycin. Amikacin, ofloxacin, erythromycin, neomycin and ampcillin were the most effective against the Pseudomonas aeruginosa. However, amoxicillin, cephalexin and

A study was carried out on 12 male lambs of Dumbi sheep breed reared under two management systems at the| department of Livestock Management Faculty of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences, Sindh Agriculture University Tando jam. The lambs of Dumbi breed were randomly divided into two groups i.e. group A and B (6 lambs in each group). The group A was reared under semi intensive management system (concentrate and open grazing) whereas animals in group B were kept under intensive management system (concentrate and green fodder). The experiment was lasted for (8) weeks and the observations for body weight and body conformation traits (girth, height and length) were recorded on weekly basis. The result indicated that the average body weight of lambs in group A (12.5 kg) was statistically higher (P