scholarly journals Eimeria spp. from Japanese quails (Coturnix japonica): new characteristic features and diagnostic tools

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (12) ◽  
pp. 1441-1447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno P. Berto ◽  
Helcio R. Borba ◽  
Viviane M. Lima ◽  
Walter Flausino ◽  
Walter L. Teixeira-Filho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Japanese Quail ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Coturnix Japonica ◽  
Diagnostic Tools ◽  
Intensity Of Infection ◽  
Japanese Quails ◽  
Eimeria Spp ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Degree Of Similarity

The Japanese quail Coturnix japonica originated from North Africa, Europe and Asia, is used worldwide as an experimental animal and model for aviculture. The current paper characterizes Eimeria bateri, Eimeria tsunodai and Eimeria uzura recovered from C. japonica. Based on the fact that quails have a global distribution, as are their coccidia, the findings of this study should provide the means for diagnosis of those Eimeria spp. in other regions and continents. Eimeria bateri showed the greatest intensity of infection and shed oocysts from the fourth day after infection; in contrast, E. tsunodai and E. uzura shed oocysts from the fifth day after infection. The three species shared a high degree of similarity and were all polymorphic. Yet, the application of line regressions, histograms and ANOVA provided means for the identification of these species. Finally, the algorithm was very efficient since verified that resultant values were not superimposed.

scholarly journals Aflatoxin effect on the oocysts morphometry and contribution on the morphology of Eimeria bateri Bhatia, Pandey and Pande, 1965 from the japanese quail Coturnix japonica in Brazil

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 235-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno P. Berto ◽  
Sergian V. Cardozo ◽  
Walter L. Teixeira Filho ◽  
Ana Maria R. Ferreira ◽  
Carlos Wilson G. Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Body Weight ◽  
Linear Regression ◽  
Japanese Quail ◽  
Single Species ◽  
Refractile Body ◽  
Coturnix Japonica ◽  
Sporocyst Residuum ◽  
Japanese Quails ◽  
Polar Granules

The purpose of this study was to characterize Eimeria bateri oocysts and to evaluate the aflatoxin effect in the morphometry of sporulated oocysts in Japanese quails infected naturally. Of a total of 50 quails naturally infected by E. bateri were randomly divided into two groups with 25 birds each. In one of them, quails were orally administered with aflatoxin in dose of 0.04 mg/kg body weight previously. Both experimental groups shed E. bateri oocysts. These oocysts were subspherical to ellipsoidal, 25.1 x 18.9 Lim, with bi-layered wall. Micropyle and residuum were absent, but one or more polar granules were present. Sporocysts elongate ovoid, 12.5 x 7.4 μm. Stieda and substieda bodies were present. Sporocyst residuum was dispersed and sporozoites presented a nucleus and a refractile body. Histograms confirmed the presence of a single species, E. bateri. Linear regression proved that E. bateri oocysts are polymorphic, due, basically, to shape of these oocysts. The comparative morphometry between two experimental groups demonstrated that the aflatoxin influenced significantly in the E. bateri oocysts.

scholarly journals Growth, blood indices and carcass characteristics of japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) fed cassava grit as replacement for maize with or without β-glucanase

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 284-294
Author(s):  
B. A Oyelami ◽  
O. A. Abu
Keyword(s):  
Japanese Quail ◽  
Carcass Characteristics ◽  
Serum Biochemistry ◽  
Coturnix Japonica ◽  
Coturnix Coturnix Japonica ◽  
Blood Indices ◽  
Coturnix Coturnix ◽  
Japanese Quails ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Dietary Treatments

One hundred and eighty (180) unsexed twenty-one day-old growing Japanese quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica) were fed for 28 days with diets in which maize was replaced with cassava grit at 0, 25 and 50% with or without β-glucanase supplementation. The birds were randomly grouped into six treatments in three replicates of ten birds per replicate. Diet 1 was the control without cassava grit while diets 2 and 3 had 25 and 50% of their maize contents replaced with cassava grit respectively. Diets 4, 5 and 6 were the same as diets 1, 2 and 3 respectively but for the inclusion of β-glucanase at 100mg/kg. Feed and water were supplied ad libitum throughout the period of study. Feed intake (590.98g), weight gain (93.77g) and FCR (6.35) were significantly (p<0.05) affected by the dietary treatments. 6 Among the haematological parameters monitored RBC (4.46x10 /UI) and WBC 3 (26.52x10 /UI) were significantly (p<0.05) affected by dietary treatments. Thiocynate (2.57 mg/ml), AST (290.6 U.I/L) and ALT (33.6 U.I/L) were also significantly (p<0.05) influenced by the experimental diets. Replacement of 25 or 50% maize with cassava grit in diets of the Japanese quail diets did not have negative effect on haematology and serum biochemistry of the birds. There were however significant differences (p< 0.05) affected by the treatments while caeca length and the lungs weight were statistically similar across the treatments. Replacement of maize with cassava grit at 25 and 50% in Japanese quail diets had no negative effect on haematology, serum biochemistry and carcass characteristics of the birds.

scholarly journals Evaluation of pomegranate (Punica granatum) pericarp aqueous extract on Eimeria spp. from Japanese quails (Coturnix japonica)

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno P. Berto ◽  
Helcio R. Borba ◽  
Hataânderson Luiz C. dos Santos ◽  
Viviane M. Lima ◽  
Walter Flausino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Aqueous Extract ◽  
Punica Granatum ◽  
Coturnix Japonica ◽  
Japanese Quails ◽  
Eimeria Spp

scholarly journals Genetic variation of the japanese quail (Coturnix Coturnix Japonica) based on biochemical polymorphism

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adebukola Akintan ◽  
Osamede Osaiyuwu ◽  
Mabel Akinyemi
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Distance ◽  
Japanese Quail ◽  
Paper Electrophoresis ◽  
Coturnix Japonica ◽  
Blood Protein ◽  
Coturnix Coturnix Japonica ◽  
Coturnix Coturnix ◽  
Japanese Quails ◽  
Expected Heterozygosity ◽  
The Mean

The study aimed at characterizing the Japanese quail using biochemical markers. Blood protein polymorphism of one hundred and sixty-six (166) Japanese quails of both sexes comprising of 83 each of mottled brown and white quails were analysed using cellulose acetate paper electrophoresis. Six loci which includes hemoglobin (Hb), transferrin (Tf), albumin (Alb), carbonic anhydrase (CA), alkaline phosphatase (Alp) and esterase-1 (Es-1) were tested. All the loci tested were polymorphic with each locus having two co-dominant alleles controlling three genotypes. Allele B was predominant at Hb, Tf and Es-1 locus with frequencies 0.90, 0.55, and 0.77, respectively while Allele A was predominant at Alb and Alp locus with frequencies 0.83 and 0.58 respectively. The Allele A had generally lower frequencies than B at the CA loci having values of 0.43 - Brown, 0.38 - White and 0.40 - overall. The mean observed heterozygosity (Ho) was 0.48 with brown and white quails having Ho values of 0.47 and 0.49 respectively, and the expected heterozygosity was observed to be higher in white quails (0.39) than in the mottled brown (0.31). The genetic distance (0.0534) between white and brown quails in this study showed little genetic differentiation between the brown and the white quails. Dendogram generated from the genetic distance values indicated that the two strains had common origin.

scholarly journals PSXI-9 Parameters of incubation of neonate japanese quail of japanese quail breeder (Coturnix coturnix japonica) fed guava extract and stored for different periods storage pre incubation

2019 ◽  
Vol 97 (Supplement_3) ◽  
pp. 379-379
Author(s):  
Heloisa Helena C Mello ◽  
Hyara Paula Fleuri Xavier ◽  
Alessandra Gimenez Mascarenhas ◽  
Itallo Conrado Araújo ◽  
Billy Noronha Marques ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Incubation Period ◽  
Japanese Quail ◽  
Ellagic Acid ◽  
Coturnix Japonica ◽  
Experimental Unit ◽  
Fisher Exact Test ◽  
Coturnix Coturnix Japonica ◽  
Antioxidant Additive ◽  
Coturnix Coturnix ◽  
Japanese Quails

Abstract The objective was to evaluate the use of guava extract (Psidium guajava L.) as an antioxidant additive in the diets of Japanese quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica) in laying phase and to verify the incubation parameters of eggs stored at different periods pre-incubation. The experiment was conduced at Federal University of Goias. The extract contained 2.13% ellagic acid. A four hundred and thirty-two (432) eggs of Japanese quails fed with guava extract in the diet were incubated in a completely randomized design, in a single-stage incubator. Temperature of 37°C and humidity of 65% was manteined. The eggs were distributed in 4x2 factorial design (levels of guava extract and stored pre-incubation period) with 54 replicates, each egg being considered an experimental unit. Four levels of guava extract were added in diets of the breeders (0.0%, 0.3%, 0.6% and 0.9%) and two stored pre-incubation period (three and nine days) were studied. The results were submitted to analysis of variance and Tukey test at 5% probability. To embryo diagnostic was used Fisher exact test. The eclosion percentage was not influenced by factors studied. There was a significant interaction (P &lt; 0.05) between effects of levels of guava extract in diet and stored pre-incubation period on hatch window. The hatch window was shorter for quails from egg storage for nine days and breeders fed a 0.0% guava extract. The lower level of guava extract supplementation in diets (0.3%) of breeder promotes padronizing hatcheries time. The neonates quails from eggs storaged for nine days hatched in shorter period time in relation to quails from the eggs stored for three days. Values of the embryo diagnostic were not different (P &gt; 0.05). It is concluded that the use of 0.3% inclusion of guava extract containing ellagic acid in layer quail diets promotes standardization of hatchery window of neonate quails.

scholarly journals  Developmental Morphological Analyses on the Preglottal Salivary Gland in Japanese Quails (Coturnix Japonica)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Osman Khalifa ◽  
Mahmoud Abd-ElKareem ◽  
Wafaa Gaber ◽  
TS Li ◽  
Abdelmohaimen M. Saleh
Keyword(s):  
Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Salivary Gland ◽  
Salivary Glands ◽  
Japanese Quail ◽  
Myoepithelial Cells ◽  
Coturnix Japonica ◽  
Embryonic Stage ◽  
Mucous Secretion ◽  
Japanese Quails ◽  
Early Embryonic Stage

Abstract To understand the development of the mucous preglottal salivary gland in Coturnix japonica (Japanese quail), morphological and histochemical studies were performed on 20 healthy Japanese quail embryos (aging from 10 th to 17 th incubation days) and 25 healthy quail chicks (aging from 0 th to 60 th days). The primordia of preglottal salivary gland was observed as an epithelial bud at the early embryonic stage, which then elongated and differentiated into secretory units by the end of this stage. In Japanese quails, the preglottal salivary gland was a mucous polystomatic tubulo-alveolar unpaired gland composed of two lateral portions and a middle one embedded into submucosa of the lingual root. The gland openings accompanied taste pore (8.17 μm) of taste buds associated salivary glands type; some skeletal muscle fibers embedded among secretory lobules extended from muscle cricohyoideus at 14 th day old quail chick. Also, both herbts corpuscles and secretory motor plexus could be detected among secretory lobules. Based on our investigations, the development of preglottal salivary gland could clearly be distinguished in the embryonic stage into prebud and bud stages at 10 th day old, cord and branching stages ended by cavitation at 11 th day old, canalization stage at 13 th day old, lobulation and secretory stages by the 17 th day old. This mucous secretion showed different histochemical reactions ended with highly alcinophilic mucous indicated highly sialomucin (acidic) content. Myoepithelial cells could be demonstrated at 17-day old quail embryo and there after, surrounded the secretory endpieces of the preglottal salivary gland.

scholarly journals The egg characteristics of malon broiler, Japanese quails and their cross

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Endang Sujana Sujana ◽  
ASEP ANANG ◽  
IWAN SETIAWAN ◽  
TUTI Widjastuti
Keyword(s):  
Japanese Quail ◽  
Shape Index ◽  
Coturnix Japonica ◽  
Coturnix Coturnix Japonica ◽  
Coturnix Coturnix ◽  
Research On Evaluation ◽  
Japanese Quails ◽  
Breeding Center ◽  
Application Programs

Abstract. Sujana E, Anang A, Setiawan I, Widjastuti. 2020. The egg characteristics of malon broiler, Japanese quails and their cross. Biodiversitas 21: 889-895. Research on evaluation of the characteristics of Malon broiler and Japanese quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica) eggs and on the crossbreeding between the two has been implemented in the Quail Breeding Center, Universitas Padjadjaran, Jatinangor, Indonesia. The purpose of this research is to know and evaluate the characteristics of Malon broiler and Japanese quails eggs and the crossbreeding between the two. The research used experimental method with complete random draft consisting of 4 treatments with six repeats, with each replay unit consisting of 10 grains so that the total of incubator eggs used are 240 grains. The treatment used was the breeding or marriage of Malon broiler quail ♂ x Malon broiler quail ♀ (MM), selected Japanese quail ♂ x selected Japanese quail ♀ (JJ), Malon broiler quail ♂ x selected Japanese quail ♀ (MJ), and Japanese selected quail ♂ x Malon broiler quail ♀ (JM). Statistical analysis was conducted using GLM (General Linear Model) with test Duncan using SAS application programs. The observed parts are egg weight, egg shape or Shape Index (SI), specific gravity (SG), and eggshell thickness. The results showed a noticeable difference in those parts. Further research results showed that the best quality of egg incubator comes from the crossbreeding of Malon broiler quail ♂ x selected Japanese quail ♀(MJ), which is good for breeding quails.

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