Feeding
&
Food Processing
1. Structure (review)
2. Function (behavior,
physiology)
3. Nutritional needs
4. Digestive efficiency
Food capture
Food capture
 Mouth and pharyngeal cavity
 Jaws
Jaws
 Teeth - jaw, mouth, pharyngeal
Teeth - jaw, mouth, pharyngeal
 Gill rakers
Gill rakers
Fish Feeding - function
 Herbivores
 < 5% of all bony fishes,
< 5% of all bony fishes,
no cartilaginous fishes
no cartilaginous fishes
 browsers - selective -
browsers - selective -
eat only the plant
eat only the plant
 grazers - less
grazers - less
selective - include
selective - include
sediments
sediments
 Detritivores
 5 - 10% of all species
5 - 10% of all species
 feed on decomposing
feed on decomposing
organic matter
organic matter
Fish Feeding – function
 Carnivores
 zooplanktivores
zooplanktivores
 suction feeding
suction feeding
 ram feeding
ram feeding
 benthic
benthic
invertebrate
invertebrate
feeders
feeders
 graspers
graspers
 pickers
pickers
 sorters
sorters
 crushers
crushers
Fish Feeding – function
 More Carnivores
 fish feeders
fish feeders
 active pursuit
active pursuit
 stalking
stalking
 ambushing
ambushing
 luring
luring
Fish feeding behavior
 Fish feeding behavior integrates
morphology with perception to
obtain food:
 Search --> Detection --> Pursuit -->
Search --> Detection --> Pursuit -->
Capture --> Ingestion
Capture --> Ingestion
Feeding
behavior
 Fish show versatility
in prey choice and
ingestion
 Behavior tightly
linked to
morphology
(co-evolution)
(co-evolution)
Fish feeding behavior
 Behavior tends to be optimizing
when choices are available
 Optimal
Optimal = maximize
= maximize benefit:cost ratio
benefit:cost ratio
 More for less!
More for less!
 Select the prey that yields the
Select the prey that yields the
greatest energetic or nutrient
greatest energetic or nutrient
“return” on the energy invested in
“return” on the energy invested in
search, pursuit, capture, and
search, pursuit, capture, and
ingestion
ingestion
Fish digestive physiology
 After ingestion of food, gut is responsible for:
 Digestion
Digestion - breaking down food into small,
- breaking down food into small,
simple molecules
simple molecules
 involves use of acids, enzymes
involves use of acids, enzymes
 Absorption
Absorption - taking molecules into blood
- taking molecules into blood
 diffusion into mucosal cells
diffusion into mucosal cells
 phagocytosis/pinocytosis by mucosal cells
phagocytosis/pinocytosis by mucosal cells
 active transport via carrier molecules
active transport via carrier molecules
Digestive Apparati
trout
carnivore
catfish
omnivore
carp
omnivore
milkfish
planktivore
Fish Digestion
 Two major groups: w/stomach, w/out
 w/out stomach: cyprinids (carps)
 w/stomach: cold-water salmonids, warm-
water catfish, tilapia, eels, grouper
 note: all “pure” predators have a stomach
and teeth
 relative gut length (RGL): gut:body length
 high RGL = species consuming detritus, algae
(high proportion of indigestible matter)
Relative Gut Length
Species Feeding RGL
Labeo horie Algae, detritus 15.5
Garra dembensis Algae, inverts 4.5
Barbus sharpei Plants 2.8-3.1
Chelethiops
elongatus
Zooplankton 0.7
Chela bacaila Carnivorous 0.9
Fish Digestive Morphology:
Major Divisions
 Mouth
 Esophagus
 Pharynx
 Stomach
 Intestine
 Rectum
 Secretory glands (liver and pancreas)
 often difficult to distinguish
Gastrointestinal Tract
Gastrointestinal Tract
 Esophagus
 Stomach
 large in carnivores,
large in carnivores,
small in
small in
herbivores/omnivo
herbivores/omnivo
res
res
 Pyloric caeca
 Intestine
 short in carnivores,
short in carnivores,
long in herbivores-
long in herbivores-
omnivores
omnivores
 Anus - separate from
urogenital pore
GI Tract- Secretory Glands
GI Tract- Secretory Glands
 Liver
 produces bile (lipolysis)
produces bile (lipolysis)
 stores glycogen
stores glycogen
 stores lipids
stores lipids
 Pancreas
 digestive enzymes
digestive enzymes
 proteases - protein
proteases - protein
breakdown
breakdown
 amylases - starch
amylases - starch
breakdown
breakdown
 chitinases - chitin
chitinases - chitin
breakdown
breakdown
 lipases - lipid breakdown
lipases - lipid breakdown
Digestive Anatomy:
Mouth/Esophagus
 Channel catfish: large mouth/esophagus, capture
prey, slightly predaceous, mouth has no teeth, no
gizzard/cardiac sphincter
 Common carp: small mouth for bottom feeding,
pharyngeal teeth, grinds food
 Tilapia: combination of bottom feeder, predator,
efficient plankton feeder, uses gill rakers,
pharyngeal mucous
Digestive Anatomy:
Stomach
 Channel catfish: have true stomach that
secretes HCl and pepsinogen (enzyme)
 Common carp: no stomach; however,
“bulb” at anterior end of digestive tract,
bile and pancreatic secretions empty into
intestine posterior to cardiac sphincter, no
secretion of gastrin (low pH)
 Tilapia: modified stomach, secretes HCl,
well-defined pocket, pH varies w/digestal
flow, has pyloric sphincter
Digestive Anatomy:
Intestine
 Channel catfish: length less than whole
body, no large/small version, slightly basic
pH, digestive secretions, nutrient
absorption, many folds for absorption
 Common carp: digestive tract is 3x whole
body length, similar in activity to that of
channel catfish
 Tilapia: tract is 6-8x that of body length,
activities similar to that of other species
Digestive Anatomy: Liver
and Pancreas
 Both organs produce digestive secretions
 Liver produces bile but is also the primary
organ for synthesis, detoxification and
storage of many nutrients
 Pancreas is primary source of digestive
enzymes in most animals
 It also produces zymogens (precursors to
enzymes)
Fish Digestive Physiology
 Digestion is accomplished in
 Stomach
Stomach
 low pH - HCl, other acids (2.0 for some
low pH - HCl, other acids (2.0 for some
tilapia!)
tilapia!)
 proteolytic enzymes (mostly pepsin)
proteolytic enzymes (mostly pepsin)
Digestive Processes:
Stomach
 Catfish as an example - its digestive processes are
similar to that of most monogastric animals
 Food enters stomach, neural and hormonal
processes stimulate digestive secretions
 As stomach distends, parietal cells in lining secrete
gastrin, assisting in digestion
 Gastrin converts the zymogen pepsinogen to pepsin
(a major proteolytic enzyme)
 Some fish have cirulein instead of gastrin
Digestive Processes:
Stomach
 Flow of digesta out of stomach is
controlled by the pyloric sphincter
 Pepsin has pH optimum and lyses protein
into small peptides for easier absorption
 Minerals are solubilized; however, no lipid
or COH is modified
 Mixture of gastric juices, digesta, mucous
is known as chyme
Fish Digestive Physiology
 Digestion is accomplished in
 Stomach
Stomach
 Intestine
Intestine
 alkaline pH (7.0 - 9.0)
alkaline pH (7.0 - 9.0)
 proteolytic enzymes - from pancreas &
proteolytic enzymes - from pancreas &
intestine
intestine
 amylases (carbohydrate digestion) - from
amylases (carbohydrate digestion) - from
pancreas & intestine
pancreas & intestine
 lipases (lipid digestion) - from pancreas &
lipases (lipid digestion) - from pancreas &
liver (gall bladder, bile duct)
liver (gall bladder, bile duct)
Digestive Processes:
Intestine
 Chyme entering the small intestine stimulates
secretions from the pancreas and gall bladder (bile)
 Bile contains salts, cholesterol, phospholipids,
pigments, etc.
 Pancreatic secretions include bicarbonates which
buffer acidity of the chyme
 Zymogens for proteins, COH, lipids, chitin and
nucleotides are secreted
 e.g., enterokinase (trypsinogen --> trypsin)
 Others: chymotrypsin, carboxypeptidase,
aminopeptidase, chitinase
Digestive Processes:
Intestine
 Digestion of carbohydrates is via
amylase, which hydrolyzes starch
 Others: nuclease, lipase
 Cellulase: interesting in that it is not
secreted by pancreas, but rather
produced by gut bacteria
 Note: intestinal mucosa also secretes
digestive enzymes
Fish digestive physiology
 Absorption is accomplished in
 Intestine
Intestine
 diffusion into mucosal cells
diffusion into mucosal cells
 phagocytosis/pinocytosis by mucosal cells
phagocytosis/pinocytosis by mucosal cells
 active transport via carrier molecules
active transport via carrier molecules
Digestive processes:
Absorption
 Most nutrient absorption occurs in the intestine
 Cross-section of the intestinal luma shows that it
is highly convoluted, increasing surface area
 Absorption through membrane is either by
passive diffusion (concentration gradient)
 Or by active transport (requires ATP)
 Or via pinocytosis (particle engulfed)
 Nutrients absorbed by passive diffusion include:
electrolytes, monosaccharides, some vitamins,
smaller amino acids
Digestive processes:
absorption
 Proteins are absorbed primarily as amino
acids, dipeptides or tripeptides
 triglycerides are absorbed as micelles
 COH’s absorbed as monosaccharides (e.g.,
glucose, except for crustaceans)
 calcium and phosphorus are usually
complexed together for absorption
 all nutrients, excluding some lipids, are
absorbed from the intestine via the hepatic
portal vein to the liver
Summary of Digestive
Enzymes
Site/Type Fluid/enzyme Function/notes
Stomach HCl Reduces gut pH,
pepsiongen
Gastric secretions Zymogen, pepsinogen, HCl
Amylase
Lipase
Esterase
Chitinase
Proteolysis
COH’s
Lipids
Esters
Chitin
Pancreas HCO3
Proteases
Amylase
Lipase
Chitinase
Neutralizes HCl
Cleave peptide linkages
COH’s
Lipids
Chitin
Liver/bile Bile salts, cholestrol Increase pH, emulsify
lipids
Intestine Aminopeptidases
Lecithinase
Split nucleosides
Phospholipids to glycerol
+ fatty acids
Fish Nutritional Needs
 High protein diet:
 Carnivores - 40 - 55% protein needed
Carnivores - 40 - 55% protein needed
 Omnivores - 28 - 35% protein needed
Omnivores - 28 - 35% protein needed
 Birds & mammals - 12 - 25% protein needed
Birds & mammals - 12 - 25% protein needed
 10 essential amino acids (PVT. TIM HALL)
10 essential amino acids (PVT. TIM HALL)
Fish Nutritional Needs
 High protein diet
 Why so high?
 Proteins needed for growth of new tissue
Proteins needed for growth of new tissue
 Proteins moderately energy-dense (don’t
Proteins moderately energy-dense (don’t
need dense source - ectotherms, low gravity)
need dense source - ectotherms, low gravity)
 Few side-effects - ease of NH
Few side-effects - ease of NH4
4
+
+
excretion
excretion
Nutritional efficiency in
fishes
 Fish more efficient than other
vertebrates:
 Conversion factor = kg feed required
Conversion factor = kg feed required
to produce 1 kg growth in fish flesh
to produce 1 kg growth in fish flesh
 Fishes: 1.7 - 5.0
Fishes: 1.7 - 5.0
 Birds & mammals: 5.0 - 15.0
Birds & mammals: 5.0 - 15.0
Nutritional efficiency in
fishes
 Fish more efficient than other
vertebrates
 Why?
 Ectothermy vs. endothermy
Ectothermy vs. endothermy
 Energy/matter required to
Energy/matter required to
counterbalance gravity
counterbalance gravity
 Bias of a high-protein diet
Bias of a high-protein diet
Nutritional efficiency
 Maintenance ration (MR) = the amount of food
needed to remain alive, with no growth or
reproduction (% body wt./day)
 MR is temperature-dependent
 MR increases as temperature increases
MR increases as temperature increases
 MR is size-dependent
 MR decreases as size increases
MR decreases as size increases

Fisiologi Biota Akuatik FeedingDigestion.ppt

  • 1.
    Feeding & Food Processing 1. Structure(review) 2. Function (behavior, physiology) 3. Nutritional needs 4. Digestive efficiency
  • 2.
    Food capture Food capture Mouth and pharyngeal cavity  Jaws Jaws  Teeth - jaw, mouth, pharyngeal Teeth - jaw, mouth, pharyngeal  Gill rakers Gill rakers
  • 3.
    Fish Feeding -function  Herbivores  < 5% of all bony fishes, < 5% of all bony fishes, no cartilaginous fishes no cartilaginous fishes  browsers - selective - browsers - selective - eat only the plant eat only the plant  grazers - less grazers - less selective - include selective - include sediments sediments  Detritivores  5 - 10% of all species 5 - 10% of all species  feed on decomposing feed on decomposing organic matter organic matter
  • 4.
    Fish Feeding –function  Carnivores  zooplanktivores zooplanktivores  suction feeding suction feeding  ram feeding ram feeding  benthic benthic invertebrate invertebrate feeders feeders  graspers graspers  pickers pickers  sorters sorters  crushers crushers
  • 5.
    Fish Feeding –function  More Carnivores  fish feeders fish feeders  active pursuit active pursuit  stalking stalking  ambushing ambushing  luring luring
  • 6.
    Fish feeding behavior Fish feeding behavior integrates morphology with perception to obtain food:  Search --> Detection --> Pursuit --> Search --> Detection --> Pursuit --> Capture --> Ingestion Capture --> Ingestion
  • 7.
    Feeding behavior  Fish showversatility in prey choice and ingestion  Behavior tightly linked to morphology (co-evolution) (co-evolution)
  • 8.
    Fish feeding behavior Behavior tends to be optimizing when choices are available  Optimal Optimal = maximize = maximize benefit:cost ratio benefit:cost ratio  More for less! More for less!  Select the prey that yields the Select the prey that yields the greatest energetic or nutrient greatest energetic or nutrient “return” on the energy invested in “return” on the energy invested in search, pursuit, capture, and search, pursuit, capture, and ingestion ingestion
  • 9.
    Fish digestive physiology After ingestion of food, gut is responsible for:  Digestion Digestion - breaking down food into small, - breaking down food into small, simple molecules simple molecules  involves use of acids, enzymes involves use of acids, enzymes  Absorption Absorption - taking molecules into blood - taking molecules into blood  diffusion into mucosal cells diffusion into mucosal cells  phagocytosis/pinocytosis by mucosal cells phagocytosis/pinocytosis by mucosal cells  active transport via carrier molecules active transport via carrier molecules
  • 10.
  • 11.
    Fish Digestion  Twomajor groups: w/stomach, w/out  w/out stomach: cyprinids (carps)  w/stomach: cold-water salmonids, warm- water catfish, tilapia, eels, grouper  note: all “pure” predators have a stomach and teeth  relative gut length (RGL): gut:body length  high RGL = species consuming detritus, algae (high proportion of indigestible matter)
  • 12.
    Relative Gut Length SpeciesFeeding RGL Labeo horie Algae, detritus 15.5 Garra dembensis Algae, inverts 4.5 Barbus sharpei Plants 2.8-3.1 Chelethiops elongatus Zooplankton 0.7 Chela bacaila Carnivorous 0.9
  • 13.
    Fish Digestive Morphology: MajorDivisions  Mouth  Esophagus  Pharynx  Stomach  Intestine  Rectum  Secretory glands (liver and pancreas)  often difficult to distinguish
  • 14.
    Gastrointestinal Tract Gastrointestinal Tract Esophagus  Stomach  large in carnivores, large in carnivores, small in small in herbivores/omnivo herbivores/omnivo res res  Pyloric caeca  Intestine  short in carnivores, short in carnivores, long in herbivores- long in herbivores- omnivores omnivores  Anus - separate from urogenital pore
  • 15.
    GI Tract- SecretoryGlands GI Tract- Secretory Glands  Liver  produces bile (lipolysis) produces bile (lipolysis)  stores glycogen stores glycogen  stores lipids stores lipids  Pancreas  digestive enzymes digestive enzymes  proteases - protein proteases - protein breakdown breakdown  amylases - starch amylases - starch breakdown breakdown  chitinases - chitin chitinases - chitin breakdown breakdown  lipases - lipid breakdown lipases - lipid breakdown
  • 16.
    Digestive Anatomy: Mouth/Esophagus  Channelcatfish: large mouth/esophagus, capture prey, slightly predaceous, mouth has no teeth, no gizzard/cardiac sphincter  Common carp: small mouth for bottom feeding, pharyngeal teeth, grinds food  Tilapia: combination of bottom feeder, predator, efficient plankton feeder, uses gill rakers, pharyngeal mucous
  • 17.
    Digestive Anatomy: Stomach  Channelcatfish: have true stomach that secretes HCl and pepsinogen (enzyme)  Common carp: no stomach; however, “bulb” at anterior end of digestive tract, bile and pancreatic secretions empty into intestine posterior to cardiac sphincter, no secretion of gastrin (low pH)  Tilapia: modified stomach, secretes HCl, well-defined pocket, pH varies w/digestal flow, has pyloric sphincter
  • 18.
    Digestive Anatomy: Intestine  Channelcatfish: length less than whole body, no large/small version, slightly basic pH, digestive secretions, nutrient absorption, many folds for absorption  Common carp: digestive tract is 3x whole body length, similar in activity to that of channel catfish  Tilapia: tract is 6-8x that of body length, activities similar to that of other species
  • 19.
    Digestive Anatomy: Liver andPancreas  Both organs produce digestive secretions  Liver produces bile but is also the primary organ for synthesis, detoxification and storage of many nutrients  Pancreas is primary source of digestive enzymes in most animals  It also produces zymogens (precursors to enzymes)
  • 20.
    Fish Digestive Physiology Digestion is accomplished in  Stomach Stomach  low pH - HCl, other acids (2.0 for some low pH - HCl, other acids (2.0 for some tilapia!) tilapia!)  proteolytic enzymes (mostly pepsin) proteolytic enzymes (mostly pepsin)
  • 21.
    Digestive Processes: Stomach  Catfishas an example - its digestive processes are similar to that of most monogastric animals  Food enters stomach, neural and hormonal processes stimulate digestive secretions  As stomach distends, parietal cells in lining secrete gastrin, assisting in digestion  Gastrin converts the zymogen pepsinogen to pepsin (a major proteolytic enzyme)  Some fish have cirulein instead of gastrin
  • 22.
    Digestive Processes: Stomach  Flowof digesta out of stomach is controlled by the pyloric sphincter  Pepsin has pH optimum and lyses protein into small peptides for easier absorption  Minerals are solubilized; however, no lipid or COH is modified  Mixture of gastric juices, digesta, mucous is known as chyme
  • 23.
    Fish Digestive Physiology Digestion is accomplished in  Stomach Stomach  Intestine Intestine  alkaline pH (7.0 - 9.0) alkaline pH (7.0 - 9.0)  proteolytic enzymes - from pancreas & proteolytic enzymes - from pancreas & intestine intestine  amylases (carbohydrate digestion) - from amylases (carbohydrate digestion) - from pancreas & intestine pancreas & intestine  lipases (lipid digestion) - from pancreas & lipases (lipid digestion) - from pancreas & liver (gall bladder, bile duct) liver (gall bladder, bile duct)
  • 24.
    Digestive Processes: Intestine  Chymeentering the small intestine stimulates secretions from the pancreas and gall bladder (bile)  Bile contains salts, cholesterol, phospholipids, pigments, etc.  Pancreatic secretions include bicarbonates which buffer acidity of the chyme  Zymogens for proteins, COH, lipids, chitin and nucleotides are secreted  e.g., enterokinase (trypsinogen --> trypsin)  Others: chymotrypsin, carboxypeptidase, aminopeptidase, chitinase
  • 25.
    Digestive Processes: Intestine  Digestionof carbohydrates is via amylase, which hydrolyzes starch  Others: nuclease, lipase  Cellulase: interesting in that it is not secreted by pancreas, but rather produced by gut bacteria  Note: intestinal mucosa also secretes digestive enzymes
  • 26.
    Fish digestive physiology Absorption is accomplished in  Intestine Intestine  diffusion into mucosal cells diffusion into mucosal cells  phagocytosis/pinocytosis by mucosal cells phagocytosis/pinocytosis by mucosal cells  active transport via carrier molecules active transport via carrier molecules
  • 27.
    Digestive processes: Absorption  Mostnutrient absorption occurs in the intestine  Cross-section of the intestinal luma shows that it is highly convoluted, increasing surface area  Absorption through membrane is either by passive diffusion (concentration gradient)  Or by active transport (requires ATP)  Or via pinocytosis (particle engulfed)  Nutrients absorbed by passive diffusion include: electrolytes, monosaccharides, some vitamins, smaller amino acids
  • 28.
    Digestive processes: absorption  Proteinsare absorbed primarily as amino acids, dipeptides or tripeptides  triglycerides are absorbed as micelles  COH’s absorbed as monosaccharides (e.g., glucose, except for crustaceans)  calcium and phosphorus are usually complexed together for absorption  all nutrients, excluding some lipids, are absorbed from the intestine via the hepatic portal vein to the liver
  • 29.
    Summary of Digestive Enzymes Site/TypeFluid/enzyme Function/notes Stomach HCl Reduces gut pH, pepsiongen Gastric secretions Zymogen, pepsinogen, HCl Amylase Lipase Esterase Chitinase Proteolysis COH’s Lipids Esters Chitin Pancreas HCO3 Proteases Amylase Lipase Chitinase Neutralizes HCl Cleave peptide linkages COH’s Lipids Chitin Liver/bile Bile salts, cholestrol Increase pH, emulsify lipids Intestine Aminopeptidases Lecithinase Split nucleosides Phospholipids to glycerol + fatty acids
  • 30.
    Fish Nutritional Needs High protein diet:  Carnivores - 40 - 55% protein needed Carnivores - 40 - 55% protein needed  Omnivores - 28 - 35% protein needed Omnivores - 28 - 35% protein needed  Birds & mammals - 12 - 25% protein needed Birds & mammals - 12 - 25% protein needed  10 essential amino acids (PVT. TIM HALL) 10 essential amino acids (PVT. TIM HALL)
  • 31.
    Fish Nutritional Needs High protein diet  Why so high?  Proteins needed for growth of new tissue Proteins needed for growth of new tissue  Proteins moderately energy-dense (don’t Proteins moderately energy-dense (don’t need dense source - ectotherms, low gravity) need dense source - ectotherms, low gravity)  Few side-effects - ease of NH Few side-effects - ease of NH4 4 + + excretion excretion
  • 32.
    Nutritional efficiency in fishes Fish more efficient than other vertebrates:  Conversion factor = kg feed required Conversion factor = kg feed required to produce 1 kg growth in fish flesh to produce 1 kg growth in fish flesh  Fishes: 1.7 - 5.0 Fishes: 1.7 - 5.0  Birds & mammals: 5.0 - 15.0 Birds & mammals: 5.0 - 15.0
  • 33.
    Nutritional efficiency in fishes Fish more efficient than other vertebrates  Why?  Ectothermy vs. endothermy Ectothermy vs. endothermy  Energy/matter required to Energy/matter required to counterbalance gravity counterbalance gravity  Bias of a high-protein diet Bias of a high-protein diet
  • 34.
    Nutritional efficiency  Maintenanceration (MR) = the amount of food needed to remain alive, with no growth or reproduction (% body wt./day)  MR is temperature-dependent  MR increases as temperature increases MR increases as temperature increases  MR is size-dependent  MR decreases as size increases MR decreases as size increases