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Laboratory culture of fairy shirmps using baker's yeast as basic food in a flow-through system

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We designed and standardized a culture method for freshwater anostracans using diets free of live algae.Thamnocephalus platyurus andBranchinecta lindahli were used as test organisms.

We used baker's yeast as basic food and added inert particles (clay or amorphic silicium dioxide) to improve the digestion of the yeast. A flow-through culture system was used, according to a fixed feeding schedule, to supply separately, culture medium (tap water), food, and inert particle suspensions. Three variants with baker's yeast as basic, food were compared for survival, growth, and reproduction. A diet of solely baker's yeast (diet 1) or baker's yeast supplemented with vegetal oil containing ß-carotene (diet 2) was unsuitable for reproduction ofT. platyurus. Cyst production was only achieved when diet 2 was supplemented with fish oil andSpirulina powder (diet 3). This suggests that not only a digestibility problem, but also nutritional deficiencies are present in baker's yeast.

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  1. Alejandro M. Maeda-Martínez & Hortencia Obergón-Barboza

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    Alejandro M. Maeda-Martínez, Hortencia Obergón-Barboza & Henri J. Dumont

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Maeda-Martínez, A.M., Obergón-Barboza, H. & Dumont, H.J. Laboratory culture of fairy shirmps using baker's yeast as basic food in a flow-through system. Hydrobiologia 298, 141–157 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00033809

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