Cholleti, Harindranath
- Department of Animal Biosciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abstract
Insects, such as crickets, are being used as a viable food source in many regions of the world, given their nutritional value for human and animal consumption. This study investigated the viral communities present in European house crickets and whether feed influences the composition of the crickets’ virome. The crickets were reared under environmentally controlled conditions and fed fresh red clover (fresh), red clover haylage (haylage), red clover hay (hay) or control feed. The viral metagenomic analysis of six replicates from each feed treatment showed that only a few reads were classified as viruses, mainly assigned to phages and insect-related viruses. A significant difference (P
Keywords
insects; feeds; red clover; viruses; metagenomics
Published in
Journal of insects as food and feed
2022, volume: 8, number: 10, pages: 1149-1155
SLU Authors
Vaga, Merko
- Department of Animal Biosciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Department of Animal Biosciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Jansson, Anna
- Department of Animal Biosciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Department of Animal Biosciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Blomström, Anne-Lie
- Department of Animal Biosciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Department of Animal Biosciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Berg, Mikael
- Department of Animal Biosciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Department of Animal Biosciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
UKÄ Subject classification
Food Science
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.3920/JIFF2021.0129
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/118680