Evaluating food quality of Arthrospira platensis for culturing Daphnia magna

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Evaluating food quality of Arthrospira platensis for culturing Daphnia magna

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Arthrospira is a filamentous cyanobacterium, rich in proteins and bioactive compounds, which is dietary supplement for human and animals. However, the contribution of this “superfood” on the life history traits of zooplankton is poorly addressed. We conducted Daphnia magna growth experiment using Arthrospira platensis comparing it with Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as quality food, to evaluate the nutritional adequacy of A. platensis for rearing daphnids. The trichomes of A. platensis was fragmented using a bead crusher for easier ingestion by the daphnids. The growth experiments revealed that A. platensis alone did not support both survival and growth of D. magna, but the daphnid survival increased after the addition of 20% C. reinhardtii. When A. platensis was supplemented with 50% and more of C. reinhardtii, however, growth was better than to those daphnids exclusively fed on C. reinhardtii. This suggests that A. platensis have some nutritional limitations essential for daphnids survival and growth instead of less digestibility or toxicity. Carbon (C) to Phosphorus (P) ratio (C:P = 46) of A. platensis was far below the threshold for daphnid growth (C:P = 116). This implies that P limitation is unlikely in A. platensis as feed for daphnids. Although the lack of some essential biochemicals such as sterols and polyunsaturated fatty acids may be a more plausible explanation, a small addition of A. platensis to standard microalgal foods would result in better growth of zooplankton, including daphnids.

Arthrospira platensis

Daphnia magna

essential biochemicals

food quality

Daphnia is a keystone zooplankton, transferring energy and carbon (C) from primary producers to higher trophic levels (Urabe et al. 1997; Martin-Creuzburg et al. 2005; Freese and Martin-Creuzburg 2013). It is a non-selective suspension feeder which consumes various phytoplankton including cyanobacteria and bacteria regardless of their nutritional quality (Fink et al. 2011; Freese and Martin-Creuzburg 2013; Bednarska et al. 2014; Wenzel et al. 2021). Previous studies have revealed the inadequate food quality of cyanobacteria for supporting the growth and reproduction of crustacean zooplankton because of their poor manageability, toxicity and lack of or an insufficient quantity of essential dietary materials such as polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) and sterols (von Elert 2002; Wacker and Martin-Creuzburg 2012; Thomas et al. 2022).

Cyanobacteria is poorly ingested by zooplankton because of the long trichome or colonial nature of their cells (von Elert 2002; Bednarska et al. 2014; Thomas et al. 2022). Daphnia efficiently consumes food particles in the intermediate size range of 0.3–40 µm, but not those over ca. 50 µm (Geller and Müller 1981; Porter and McDonough 1984; Urabe et al. 1996). Long filamentous algae are too large for daphnids to ingest, and such large food items interfere with collection of other foods, and consequently cause loss of fitness (Bednarska et al. 2014).

On the other hand, C transfer from cyanobacteria to daphnids can be constrained by elemental limitations; for example, shortage of phosphorus (P) for daphnids growth happens when the C to P ratio in the diet exceeds 300 (Urabe et al. 1997, 2018; Gulati and Demott 1997). Higher P allocation into ribosomal RNA is required to support fast protein synthesis, which explains the direct relationship between growth and P availability in the food (Elser et al. 2003; Bukovinszky et al. 2012). The effect of P limitation in the life history traits of zooplankton depends on the developmental stages and taxa (Thomas et al. 2022). In Daphnia, P limitation is pronounced at both growth and reproduction stages, which makes it a crucial element in the food. In addition, the availability of P affects the relative importance of fatty acids in the diet (Gulati and Demott 1997; Thomas et al. 2022).

Even though most cyanobacteria show such food quality constraints in supporting zooplankton life history traits, some cyanobacterial species have outstanding nutritional profiles and provide substantial benefits for human and animals. Arthrospira is a filamentous cyanobacteria that is rich in proteins and bioactive compounds (Martins et al. 2021; Spínola et al. 2022). Its nutritional quality has been widely investigated and used as a food supplement for humans and animals, and in pharmaceutical products (Gentscheva et al. 2023). Its high levels of proteins (60–70%), essential amino acids, fatty acids and carbohydrates have attracted attention to it as a sustainable food source for humans (Wang et al. 2021) and animals (Altmann and Rosenau 2022). It also has anticancer, antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral activities because of its phycocyanin, phycocyanobilin and allophycocyanin production (Nuhu 2013; Wang et al. 2021).

Arthrospira can be cultured using the anaerobically digested effluent (ADE) of organic wastes (Dunn et al. 2013; Hultberg et al. 2017; Matos et al. 2021) and aquatic weeds (O’Sullivan et al. 2010; Kimura et al. 2019). Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), for example, is an invasive aquatic weed that have deleterious effects on various aquatic ecosystems worldwide (Williams 2004; Villamagna and Murphy 2010). In our ongoing project, Arthrospira is cultured using ADE produced from over-growing water hyacinth in Lake Tana, Ethiopia (Dersseh et al. 2019; Damtie et al. 2022a, b). Utilizing the Arthrospira produced from the ADE to culture zooplankton, and then to culture fish using the zooplankton as feed, may be an appropriate way to maximize use of water hyacinth. However, there is limited information on the effects of Arthrospira on the growth and reproduction of zooplankton including daphnids. In this study, we conducted a D. magna growth experiment using A. platensis as a single food and in combination with C. reinhardtii to evaluate the food quality of A. platensis.

Microalgae cultivation

A. platensis (NIES-39) and C. reinhardtii (NIES-2235) were cultured using SOT medium (Ogawa and Terui 1970) and C medium (Ichimura, 1971), respectively (Table 1). Both A. platensis and C. reinhardtii were grown in 1-L flasks under a photoperiod of 12D:12L with light intensity of ca. 440 µmol m^− 2 s^− 1 at 25 ºC and ca. 180 µmol m^− 2 s^− 1 at 20 ºC, respectively. The algae were harvested at the exponential growth phase and concentrated through centrifugation (4200 g). An aliquot of the algal suspension was collected from the well-mixed algal culture and the optical density (OD) of the algal suspension was measured with a spectrophotometer (SP-300, OPTIMA®, Tokyo, Japan) at a wavelength of 680 nm. The carbon concentration of the algal suspension was estimated from a regression equation between OD and the carbon mass of the cells established before the experiment. A new inoculation for the microalgal culture was made every 5 days for A. platensis and every 7 days for C. reinhardtii to provide a constant supply of fresh algal food throughout the experiment.

Table 1

Chemical compositions of SOT and C media
SOT- Medium		C- Medium
Chemicals	Concentration (mg/L)	Chemicals	Concentration (mg/L)
NaHCO₃	16800	Ca(NO₃)₂・4H₂O	150
K₂HPO₄	500	KNO₃	100
NaNO₃	2,500	β-Na₂glycerophosphate・5H₂O	50
K2SO₄	1000	MgSO₄・7H₂O	40
NaCl	1000	Vitamin B₁₂	0.0001
MgSO₄·7H₂O	200	Biotin	0.0001
CaCl₂	40	Thiamine HCl	1
FeSO₄·7H₂O	10	Tris (hydroxymethyl) aminomethane	500
Na₂EDTA	80	Na₂ EDTA·2H₂O	1000
H₃BO₃	2.86	FeCl₃·6H₂O	196
MnSO₄·7H₂O	2.5	MnCl₂·4H₂O	36
ZnSO₄·7H₂O	0.222	ZnSO₄·7H₂O	10.4
CuSO₄·5H₂O	0.079	CoCl₂·6H₂O	4
Na₂MoO₄·2H₂O	0.021	Na₂MoO₄·2H₂O	2.5

Fragmentation of A. platensis trichome

The size of untreated A. platensis trichomes ranges from 50 µm to 500 µm (Wan et al. 2021), which is too large for daphnids to ingest (Geller and Müller 1981; Wenzel et al. 2012; Bednarska et al. 2014). To be easily ingested by the daphnids, A. platensis trichomes were fragmented with a bead crusher (µT-01, TAITEC). A 2-ml conical screw cap microtube (1392-200-C, WATSON) and zirconia beads (CZS0060, AS ONE Corporation) with a diameter of 0.4–0.6 mm were used to fragment the trichomes. Approximately one-third of the volume of the microtube was filled with zirconia beads and the remaining volume was filled with an A. platensis suspension with concentration of 0.5–0.8 mg C mL^− 1. The shaking speed of the bead crusher was set at 4600 rpm for 5–25 s. The fragmented A. platensis cells were checked by a microscope every 5 s and the sizes of the trichomes were measured with a digital micrometer (Wraycam, NF500) under a dissecting microscope (Olympus, IX70) at a magnification of 20×.

Growth experiment in D. magna

A stock culture of D. magna was maintained in aged and filtered tap water (ATW) with a glass fiber filter (Whatman, GF/F, diameter: 47 mm) at 20 ºC, photoperiod of 12L:12D and light intensity of ca. 180 µmol m^− 2 s^− 1 with sufficient amounts of C. reinhardtii (> 10⁵ cells mL^− 1). For each food treatment, five neonates born within 12 h were arbitrarily sorted from a stock culture and then transferred to a 200-ml glass jar filled with ATW and an algal food suspension. The food treatments were conducted at five different ratios of fragmented A. platensis: C. reinhardtii (100:0, 80:20, 50:50, 20:80 and 0:100) at a food concentration of 4 mg C L^− 1 after fragmentation of the trichomes of A. platensis for 25 s with the bead crusher (Table 2). Control treatments exclusively using C. reinhardtii as the food alga were conducted at 20%, 50% and 80% of 4 mg C L^− 1 (Table 2). The algal food suspension and ATW were changed daily.

The survival of experimental animals was monitored daily when the algal food suspension was changed. All treatments were made in triplicate and lasted for 6 days. At the end of the experiment, the surviving animals from each treatment were collected from the jar, washed with ATW, transferred to a tin capsule, dried in an oven (DV-600, YAMATO) for 24 h and then weighed on a digital balance with a minimum weighing value of 1 µg (AD-4212D-32, A&D Instruments Ltd). In addition, 30 neonates born within 12 h were arbitrarily sorted from a stock culture and the same procedure described above was carried out to determine the initial dry weight of the animals. Somatic growth rates (g) of the animals were calculated as the increment of the dry mass between newborn (M₀) and 6-day old animals (M₆) using Eq. (1):

\(\text{g}=\frac{lnM6-lnM0}{6}\) . (Eq. 1)

Table 2

Food treatments at different supply ratios of *Arthrospira platensis* to *Chlamydomonas reinhardtii* (AP:CR) for *Daphnia magna* growth experiments at food concentration of 4 mg C L^− 1
Food treatment (AP:CR)	Carbon mass of food (mg C L^− 1)
A. platensis alone (100:0)	4
80% A. platensis + 20% C. reinhardtii (80:20)	3.2 + 0.8
50% A. platensis + 50% C. reinhardtii (50:50)	2 + 2
20% A. platensis + 80% C. reinhardtii (20:80)	0.8 + 3.2
C. reinhardtii alone (0:100)	4
C. reinhardtii alone (0:80)	3.2
C. reinhardtii alone (0:50)	2
C. reinhardtii alone (0:20)	0.8
No food	0

Elemental analysis of microalgae

To determine the elemental composition of C, nitrogen (N) and P of the microalgae, we took an aliquot of approximately 10–15 ml of the fresh algal suspension, equivalent to a dry weight of 9.1 ± 0.4 mg for A. platensis and 2.9 ± 0.16 mg for C. reinhardtii, and filtered with a pre-combusted and pre-weighed glass fiber filter (GF/F, diameter: 47 mm, Whatman). The filtered microalgae were dried in an oven (DV-600, YAMATO) at 60 ºC for 24 h and weighed on an electronic balance (AW220, SHIMADZU). C and N contents of the algal cells were determined with an NC analyzer (NCH-22A, SUMIGRAPH). The P contents were determined with an autoanalyzer (Bran + Luebbe, AACS II, Norderstedt, Germany) after degrading the sample with potassium peroxodisulfate at a maximum absorbance wavelength of 880 nm, based on the phosphomolybdenum blue method (Murphy and Riley 1962).

Statistical analysis

Differences in the somatic growth rates of daphnids among the food treatments were tested with one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). Treatments with no surviving animal per beaker were excluded from the ANOVA. When the ANOVA showed a significant difference, Tukey’s honestly significant difference (HSD) test was conducted at p < 0.05. All statistical analyses were made using R statistical software (R Core Team 2022).

Trichome sizes of A. platensis

Trichome sizes of untreated A. platensis ranged from 64 µm to 595 µm with an average size of 363 µm. These are too large for daphnids ingestion. To ease consumption, the trichomes were fragmented with a bead crusher at the speed of 4600 rpm for different lengths of time (Figs. 1 and 2). This efficiently reduced them to 50 µm on average in 5 s. The fragmented A. platensis trichomes were further crushed for up to 25 s, resulting in an average size of 15.6 µm. This is a similar size range to C. reinhardtii, 10 µm on average, and can be easily ingested by daphnids. Therefore, we used this fragmented A. platensis for the following experiments.

Elemental composition of the two microalgae

The C, N and P composition of A. platensis and C. reinhardtii cells is shown in Table 3. P contents in A. platensis and C. reinhardtii were 10.3 ± 0.6 and 15.4 ± 0.8 mg g-dry weight^− 1 respectively. The C:P ratios in A. platensis and C. reinhardtii were 46.3 and 35.5 dry weight, while C:N ratios were 3.9 and 4.8 dry weight, respectively. There were no noticeable differences in the composition of the elements between the two microalgae.

Table 3

Phosphorus (P), carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) composition of *Arthrospira platensis* and *Chlamydomonas reinhardtii*
Microalgae	Contents (mg g-dry-wt^− 1)			C: P	C: N
Microalgae	P	C	N	C: P	C: N
A. platensis	10.3 ± 0.6	477.3 ± 21.2	123.6 ± 5.2	46.3	3.9
C. reinhardtii	15.4 ± 0.8	546.3 ± 33.9	114.3 ± 6.5	35.5	4.8

Survival and growth of D. magna

All experimental animals fed exclusively on A. platensis and those without food (starvation) died within 5 days (Fig. 3). On the other hand, animals fed on A. platensis supplemented with at least 20% C. reinhardtii survived longer than 5 days. The survival rates increased with increasing supplementation of C. reinhardtii. Although more than 50% of daphnids fed on 80% C. reinhardtii alone died within 6 days old, the remaining animals produced eggs and neonates.

Growth rates of the daphnids increased from 0.25 ± 0.031 day ^− 1 to 0.37 ± 0.041 day ^− 1 with increasing proportions of C. reinhardtii in the mixtures from 20–80% (Fig. 4). The differences among the treatments were statistically significant (Table 4). The growth rate in the treatment of 80:20 of AP:CR was lower than that in 0:20, while that in 20:80 was higher than that in 0:80 (Fig. 4).

Table 4

Results of one-way analysis of variance and post hoc Tukey’s HSD test for the effects of food treatments on growth of *Daphnia magna.* df, degrees of freedom; SS, sum of square; MS, mean square; F, F value; and p, p value
	Df	SS	MS	F	p
Between groups	6	0.03048	0.005080	4.899	0.00793
Within group	13	0.01348	0.001037
Bartlett's K-squared = 1.6583, df = 6, p = 0.9483

Poor manageability of some cyanobacteria owing to their long chain, spiral or colonial forms is one of the major barriers in ingestion and trophic transfer of energy and C to zooplankton (Bednarska et al. 2014). Mechanical interference with the filtering process is one reason for the inferior assimilation of cyanobacterial C to zooplankton (Porter and McDonough 1984). Although the trichome size of A. platensis (ca. 363 µm on average) was too large for daphnids, ingestion was easy when the size was reduced to < 20 µm after fragmentation. We found, however, that daphnids could not survive when fed on such fragmented A. platensis alone. This implies that A. platensis lacks some essential nutrients mandatory to the survival and growth of daphnids.

Supplementation of A. platensis by just 20% of C. reinhardtii to total amount of food enhanced the survival and growth rates of daphnids, but these rates were lower than daphnids exclusively fed on C. reinhardtii at 20% supply. This suggests that the shortage of some essential elements in A. platensis for daphnid growth cannot be improved by a small supplementation of C. reinhardtii. Growth improved when the daphnids were fed on > 50% supplementation of C. reinhardtii. In 80% supplementation of C. reinhardtii, the growth rate was higher than those daphnids fed on C. reinhardtii alone. This suggests that daphnids may be able to digest A. platensis and that it can contribute more effectively to growth once the essential nutrients are compensated by addition of a suitable alga such as C. reinhardtii. Similar studies have also indicated that, daphnids in cyanobacterial food, needs at least 50% eukaryotic microalgae to meet the nutritional limitations of cyanobacteria (Martin-Creuzburg et al. 2008; Pietrzak et al. 2010; Wenzel et al. 2012). Use of cyanobacteria mixed with other better quality microalgae has been found to enhance daphnid growth (Gulati and Demott 1997; Urabe and Waki 2009; Bednarska et al. 2014). This clearly explains that, even though cyanobacteria alone cannot sustain zooplankton life history traits, they can contribute to better growth and reproduction once their limitations are relaxed.

Another reason for the poor quality of A. platensis for supporting daphnid growth might be the absence or insufficient availability of dietary lipids, especially PUFA and sterols. Previous studies have shown that 74% of lipid content of C. reinhardtii is unsaturated fatty acids (USFA) of which 48% are omega-3 fatty acids, while in Spirulina (in commercial Arthrospira powder) 38.6% of the lipid content was USFA with < 1.5% omega-3 fatty acid. In addition, alpha-linolenic acid, an important PUFA for daphnid growth, was found to be 42.4% in C. reinhardtii and 0.12% in Spirulina (Darwish et al. 2020). The most biologically important PUFAs for daphnid growth and reproduction such as alpha-linolenic acid, arachidonic acid, eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid are found in smaller quantities in Spirulina platensis (= A. platensis) (Tokuşoglu and Ünal 2003). This implies that insufficient availability of biologically important PUFAs in Arthrospira may contribute to its inferior performance in supporting daphnid growth.

Previous studies have clearly demonstrated that the poor quality of cyanobacteria for zooplankton is due to lack of sterols, which are important lipids responsible for cell membrane fluidity and are precursors of steroid hormones (Elert et al. 2003; Martin-Creuzburg and Elert 2004; Martin-Creuzburg et al. 2005, 2008, 2009). Crustaceans convert phytosterols to cholesterol (Teshima 1971). It has been shown that sterols are primarily limiting elements for daphnid growth and play an important role in juvenile development (Martin-Creuzburg et al. 2011). The premature death of daphnids when they fed on A. platensis in this study might be associated with lack of sterols (Martin-Creuzburg et al. 2005, 2011). Daphnids growth initially limited by sterol availability but switched to PUFA once sterols shortages are compensated (von Elert 2002; Martin-Creuzburg et al. 2005, 2008).

Although A. platensis was ingestible by D. magna after appropriate fragmentation, it could not support the survival and somatic growth of D. magna. A. platensis supplemented with C. reinhardtii as a standard algal food enhanced the survival and growth of the daphnids, suggesting the limitation of essential nutrients in A. platensis to support daphnid’s life history traits. Although such insufficiency might be the cause of the poor nutritional quality of A. platensis for rearing D. magna, a small addition of A. platensis to standard microalgal foods would contribute to better daphnid growth than when standard foods are fed exclusively.

Acknowledgments

This study was supported by the Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (grant number JPMJSA2005) funded by Japan Science and Technology Agency/Japan International Cooperation Agency; Grants-in-Aid for Scientiﬁc Research (22H02425) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science to SB; and Grants-in-Aid for Scientiﬁc Research (20K15586) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science to XL. We thank Dr Shoko Hosoi-Tanabe for supporting fragmentation of the trichomes using a bead crusher.

Competing interests

The authors have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the content of this article.

Author contributions

All authors contributed to the study idea and experimental design. Conducting the experiment, data analysis and first draft manuscript preparation were performed by Amare Mezgebu and revised by Syuhei Ban, Liu Xin and Minwyelet Mingist. All authors commented on the manuscript, and read and approved the final manuscript.

Data availability

All data generated or analyzed during this study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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Evaluating food quality of Arthrospira platensis for culturing Daphnia magna

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