fmars-08-659519 April 9, 2021 Time: 13:57 # 1 ORIGINAL RESEARCH published: 12 April 2021 doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.659519 The Effects of Nisin-Producing Lactococcus lactis Strain Used as Probiotic on Gilthead Sea Bream (Sparus aurata) Growth, Gut Microbiota, and Transcriptional Response Federico Moroni1†, Fernando Naya-Català2†, M. Carla Piazzon3, Simona Rimoldi1, Edited by: Josep Calduch-Giner2, Alberto Giardini4, Inés Martínez5, Fabio Brambilla6, Fotini Kokou, 2 1 Wageningen University and Research, Jaume Pérez-Sánchez and Genciana Terova * Netherlands 1 Department of Biotechnology and Life Sciences, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy, 2 Nutrigenomics and Fish Growth Reviewed by: Endocrinology, Institute of Aquaculture Torre de la Sal (IATS-CSIC), Castellón, Spain, 3 Fish Pathology, Institute Carlo C. Lazado, of Aquaculture Torre de la Sal (IATS-CSIC), Castellón, Spain, 4 Centro Sperimentale del Latte S.r.l., Zelo Buon Persico, Italy, Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries 5 Sacco S.r.l., Cadorago, Italy, 6 VRM S.r.l. Naturalleva, Cologna Veneta, Italy and Aquaculture Research (Nofima), Norway Yun-Zhang Sun, The present research tested the effects of dietary nisin-producing Lactococcus lactis Jimei University, China on growth performance, feed utilization, intestinal morphology, transcriptional response, *Correspondence: and microbiota in gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata). A feeding trial was conducted Genciana Terova
[email protected] with fish weighting 70–90 g. Fish were tagged with passive, integrated transponders †These authors have contributed and distributed in nine 500 L tanks with 40 fish each. Fish were fed for 12 weeks with equally to this work either a control (diet A) or experimental diets (diets B and C) in triplicate (3 tanks/diet).