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R/F-80
Utility of β-glucan as an immunostimulator for infectious disease prophylaxis in fish aquaculture
Principal Investigator:
Robert S. AndersonStart/End Year:
1995 - 1997Institution:
Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental ScienceTopic(s):
- Aquaculture
Description:
The overall objective is to determine if b-glucan will continue to exert a immunostimulating (protective) activity against pathogenic bacterial infection in striped bass in the face of aquaculture-associated stress. A positive finding would indicate that this agent has good potential for disease protection, both as a broad-spectrum immune stimulator and by increasing the potency of bacterial vaccines.
Funding Start Year
1995
Funding End Year
1997
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Featured Fellow
Nina Santos
Nina Santos is a Ph.D. student at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. For her dissertation, she is focused on small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids – an understudied yet important part of many estuarine and coastal food webs.
Featured Research Project
Developing a habitat model for mysids, an important link in Chesapeake Bay food webs
Mysids are important mesozooplankton prey for many species of fish in Chesapeake Bay and are an important link in transferring energy from lower to upper trophic levels. Mysids also serve as biological vectors for benthic-pelagic coupling due to their diel vertical migration and omnivorous prey-switching behavior, which makes mysids important regulators of food web architecture. Despite their central role in coastal food webs, surprisingly little is known about mysid ecology and dynamics in Chesapeake Bay.
