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Sci Rep ; 12(1): 18468, 2022 11 02.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36323724

ABSTRACT

Predatory fish in the wild consume whole prey including hard skeletal parts like shell and bone. Shell and bone are made up of the buffering minerals calcium carbonate (CaCO3) and calcium phosphate (Ca3(PO4)2). These minerals resist changes in pH, meaning they could have physiological consequences for gastric acidity, digestion and metabolism in fish. Using isocaloric diets supplemented with either CaCO3, Ca3(PO4)2 or CaCl2 as non-buffering control, we investigated the impacts of dietary buffering on the energetic cost of digestion (i.e. specific dynamic action or SDA), gastric pH, the postprandial blood alkalosis (the "alkaline tide") and growth in juvenile rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Increases in dietary buffering were significantly associated with increased stomach chyme pH, postprandial blood HCO3-, net base excretion, the total SDA and peak SDA but did not influence growth efficiency in a 21 day trial. This result shows that aspects of a meal that have no nutritional value can influence the physiological and energetic costs associated with digestion in fish, but that a reduction in the SDA will not always lead to improvements in growth efficiency. We discuss the broader implications of these findings for the gastrointestinal physiology of fishes, trade-offs in prey choice in the wild, anthropogenic warming and feed formulation in aquaculture.


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Calcium , Oncorhynchus mykiss , Animals , Calcium/metabolism , Digestion , Oncorhynchus mykiss/metabolism , Calcium, Dietary/metabolism , Minerals/metabolism , Stomach , Animal Feed
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J Exp Biol ; 225(2)2022 01 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35005768

ABSTRACT

Fish in coastal ecosystems can be exposed to acute variations in CO2 of between 0.2 and 1 kPa CO2 (2000-10,000 µatm). Coping with this environmental challenge will depend on the ability to rapidly compensate for the internal acid-base disturbance caused by sudden exposure to high environmental CO2 (blood and tissue acidosis); however, studies about the speed of acid-base regulatory responses in marine fish are scarce. We observed that upon sudden exposure to ∼1 kPa CO2, European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) completely regulate erythrocyte intracellular pH within ∼40 min, thus restoring haemoglobin-O2 affinity to pre-exposure levels. Moreover, blood pH returned to normal levels within ∼2 h, which is one of the fastest acid-base recoveries documented in any fish. This was achieved via a large upregulation of net acid excretion and accumulation of HCO3- in blood, which increased from ∼4 to ∼22 mmol l-1. While the abundance and intracellular localisation of gill Na+/K+-ATPase (NKA) and Na+/H+ exchanger 3 (NHE3) remained unchanged, the apical surface area of acid-excreting gill ionocytes doubled. This constitutes a novel mechanism for rapidly increasing acid excretion during sudden blood acidosis. Rapid acid-base regulation was completely prevented when the same high CO2 exposure occurred in seawater with experimentally reduced HCO3- and pH, probably because reduced environmental pH inhibited gill H+ excretion via NHE3. The rapid and robust acid-base regulatory responses identified will enable European sea bass to maintain physiological performance during large and sudden CO2 fluctuations that naturally occur in coastal environments.


Subject(s)
Bass , Animals , Bass/physiology , Carbon Dioxide/toxicity , Ecosystem , Gills/metabolism , Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase/metabolism
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J Fish Biol ; 96(4): 986-1003, 2020 Apr.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32060920

ABSTRACT

The Mekong Delta is host to a large number of freshwater species, including a unique group of facultative air-breathing Anabantiforms. Of these, the striped snakehead (Channa striata), the climbing perch (Anabas testudineus), the giant gourami (Osphronemus goramy) and the snakeskin gourami (Trichogaster pectoralis) are major contributors to aquaculture production in Vietnam. The gastrointestinal responses to feeding in these four species are detailed here. Relative intestinal length was lowest in the snakehead, indicating carnivory, and 5.5-fold greater in the snakeskin, indicating herbivory; climbing perch and giant gourami were intermediate, indicating omnivory. N-waste excretion (ammonia-N + urea-N) was greatest in the carnivorous snakehead and least in the herbivorous snakeskin, whereas the opposite trend was observed for net K+ excretion. Similarly, the more carnivorous species had a greater stomach acidity than the more herbivorous species. Measurements of acid-base flux to water indicated that the greatest postprandial alkaline tide occurred in the snakehead and a potential acidic tide in the snakeskin. Additional findings of interest were high levels of both PCO2 (up to 40 mmHg) and HCO3 - (up to 33 mM) in the intestinal chyme of all four of these air-breathing species. Using in vitro gut sac preparations of the climbing perch, it was shown that the intestinal net absorption of fluid, Na+ and HCO3 - was upregulated by feeding but not net Cl- uptake, glucose uptake or K+ secretion. Upregulated net absorption of HCO3 - suggests that the high chyme (HCO3 - ) does not result from secretion by the intestinal epithelium. The possibility of ventilatory control of PCO2 to regulate postprandial acid-base balance in these air-breathing fish is discussed.


Subject(s)
Feeding Behavior/physiology , Fishes/physiology , Gastrointestinal Tract/physiology , Ammonia/metabolism , Animals , Fresh Water , Intestinal Mucosa/metabolism , Ions/metabolism , Postprandial Period , Sodium/metabolism , Urea/metabolism , Vietnam
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