Probiotic Applications in Crustaceans - Aquaculture Nutrition: Gut Health, Probiotics and Prebiotics - page 309

Table 11.1 Summary of relevant in vivo probiotics applications reported in crustacean larviculture.

Animal
species

Probiotic strain Route of

administration

Rearing
conditions

Measured
parameters

Pathogen
challenge

Reference

Shrimp
Penaeus
monodon

Lb. rhamnosus and two
commercial probiotics
(including Ped. acidilactici )

Water Experimental tanks DR, S, GP V. anguillarum Panigrahi et al.

(2011)

Pseudomonas sp., Bacillus sp.,
Arthrobacter sp.
independently

Water Experimental tanks DR V. harveyi Pai et al. (2010)

Combination of Bacillus spp. Water Commercial

hatchery

S Decamp et al.

(2008)

B. cereus , Paenibacillus spp.,
Paenibacillus polymyxa
independently

Water Experimental tanks DR V. harveyi and V.

vulnificus

Ravi et al. (2007)

B. subtilis S11 Water Experimental tanks DR, GM V. harveyi Meunpol et al.

(2003)

Ps. aeruginosa Water 1 litre beaker S Chythanya et al.

(2002)

B. subtilis S11 Feed Experimental tanks DR, IR V. harveyi Rengpipat et al.

(2000)

Combination of Lactobacillus
sp. and S. cerevisiae

Feed Experimental tanks S, GP Uma et al. (1999)

Thalassobacter utilis PM-4 Water Experimental tanks S, GP Maeda and Liao

(1992)

Litopenaeus
vannamei

B. subtilis E20 Water Experimental tanks S, IR, GP, EP, AM,

stress tolerance

Salinity, temperature,
nitrite

Liu et al. (2011b)

Combination of Bacillus spp. Water Commercial

hatchery

S Decamp et al.

(2008)

V. alginolyticus Water Experimental tanks S, DR, IR WSSV Rodríguez et al.

(2007)

Lb. plantarum and an
unidentified LAB
independently

Water Experimental tanks S, GP, AM V. harveyi Viera et al. (2007)