Occurrence of cellulase activity in the stomachs of fishes
- 1 November 1974
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Fish Biology
- Vol. 6 (6) , 779-790
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8649.1974.tb05120.x
Abstract
The stomachs of 148 elasmobranch and teleost fishes representing 35 families and 62 species were examined by viscometry for cellulase activity. Sixteen species of Georgia estuarine fish and the freshwater fish, Ictalurus punctatus (Rafinesque) showed some cellulase activity. Elasmobranchs and teleosts captured in Florida Bay, Florida, and over the continental shelf off Georgia lacked cellulase activity. Cellulase activity in fishes is probably produced by microflora of the alimentary tract.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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