China Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine ›› 2022, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (10): 3829-3837.doi: 10.16431/j.cnki.1671-7236.2022.10.015

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Research Advances of Hermetia illucens on Intestinal Health and Microflora in Pigs and Poultry

ZHONG Chonghua1,2, GUI Fuxing3, CAO Liting3,4, GUO Rongfu1   

  1. 1. College of Animal Science and Technology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming 650201, China;
    2. College of Animal Science and Technology, Southwest University, Chongqing 402460, China;
    3. College of Veterinary Medicine, Southwest University, Chongqing 402460, China;
    4. Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine, Southwest University, Chongqing 402460, China
  • Received:2022-04-28 Online:2022-10-05 Published:2022-09-30

Abstract: In recent years,the price of feed protein raw materials has continued to rise,and China is in short supply of feed protein raw materials and relies on imports for a long time.Therefore,finding and developing new protein sources has become a research hotspot to solve the shortage of feed protein raw materials.Hermetia illucens is a kind of saprophytic insect of diptera,Stratiomyidae family.It can transform organic waste into biological matter with high added value quickly,and has obvious advantages of low breeding cost,fast breeding speed and high output.It is rich in amino acids,antimicrobial peptides (AMPs),chitin and other bioactive substances,and its high proportion of protein and fat content lays a foundation for it to be a high-quality animal feed.A large number of studies have shown that Hermetia illucens partly replaces feed protein composition can effectively enhance animal immune and antioxidant capacity,at the same time through positive regulating intestinal beneficial microbial population and increase the way bacteria abundance,have the effect of improving animal intestinal health,as a kind of promising protein feed raw materials is expected to find a new breakthrough for animal husbandry and aquaculture.The authors have briefly described nutrition characteristic and main active ingredient of Hermetia illucens,systematically summarized the latest research progress on the effects of feeding Hermetia illucens on intestinal barrier,immune function and intestinal flora of pigs and poultry.The future research ideas and development direction of Hermetia illucens are prospected,in order to provide references for the further development and research of Hermetia illucens and its popularization and application in animal breeding production.

Key words: Hermetia illucens; intestinal health; intestinal flora; protein feed raw materials

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