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- Title
New Insights into the Relationships between Bacterial Dynamics and Water Quality of Aquaculture Systems Supplemented with Carbon Source and Biofilm Substratum.
- Authors
Yu, Er-Meng; Li, Zhen-Chi; Li, Zhi-Fei; Wang, Guang-Jun; Xia, Yun; Zhang, Kai; Tian, Jing-Jing; Gong, Wang-Bao; Xie, Jun
- Abstract
Aquaculture is crucial for achieving the FAO's goal of a world without hunger and malnutrition. Recently, biofilm substratum has been proposed as an effective means to control waste pollution caused by excessive nutrient inputs from aquaculture, but key bacterial communities involved in the remediation remain unclear. Here we reported a freshwater mesocosm study where the addition of biofilm substrata with external carbon effectively controlled the total ammonia nitrogen and improved fish growth. 16S rRNA study and Weighted UniFrac analysis revealed that bacterial compositions were significantly different (999 permutations, p-value < 0.01) between the biofilm-substrata-added and biofilm-substrata-free systems. Planctomycetes were found, as key bacteria benefited from the biofilm substrata addition and exerted the major function of ammonia nitrogen control. Our study demonstrated that the addition of biofilm substrata and an external carbon source favored fish growth and improved the aquaculture environment by the formation of a unique bacteria community.
- Subjects
WATER quality; BIOFILMS; FISH growth; AQUACULTURE; BACTERIAL communities; CARBON
- Publication
Microorganisms, 2021, Vol 9, Issue 10, p2168
- ISSN
2076-2607
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/microorganisms9102168