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. 2014 Mar 3;7(3):265–310. doi: 10.3390/ph7030265

Table 1.

Characterized antimicrobial peptides from fish, by species. Listed is the number of peptides of each family [reference].

Species Piscidins Defensins Hepcidins Cathelicidins Histone-derived
Common name Scientific name Habitat
American plaice Hippoglossoides platessoides Marine 2 [8]
Antarctic toothfish Dissostichus mawsoni Marine 3 [9]
Atlantic cod Gadus morhua Marine and brackish 2 [10] 1 [11] 1 [12] 1 [13] 1 [14]
Antarctic eelpout Lycodichthys dearborni Marine 2 [9]
Atlantic hagfish Myxine glutinosa Marine 3 [15]
Atlantic salmon Salmo salar Marine, brackish and freshwater 2 [16] 2 [17] 1 [18]
Ayu Plecoglossus altivelis Marine, brackish and freshwater 1 [19] 1 [20]
Barramundi Lates calcarifer Marine, brackish and freshwater 2 [21]
Black porgy Acanthopagrus schlegelii Marine and brackish 7 [22,23]
Black rockfish Sebastes schlegelii Marine 2 [24]
Blotched snakehead Channa maculata Freshwater 1 [25]
Blue catfish Ictalurus furcatus Freshwater and brackish 1 [26]
Blunt snout bream Megalobrama amblycephala Freshwater 1 [27]
Brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis Marine, brackish and freshwater 2 [28]
Brown trout Salmo trutta fario Marine, brackish and freshwater 1 [28]
Channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus Freshwater 1 [26] 1 [29]
Chinese loach Paramisgurnus dabryanus Freshwater 1 [30]
Common carp Cyprinus carpio L. Freshwater and brackish 2 [31] 1 [32]
European seabass Dicentrarchus labrax Marine, brackish and freshwater 1 [33] 1 [34]
Gilthead seabream Sparus aurata Marine and brackish 1 [35] 1 [36]
Grayling Thymallus thymallus Freshwater and brackish 1 [28]
Half-smooth tongue sole Cynoglossus semilaevis Marine, brackish and freshwater 1 [37]
Atlantic halibut Hippoglossus hippoglossus Marine 1 [8] 1 [38]
Hybrid striped bass Morone saxatilis x M. chrysops Marine, brackish and freshwater 4 [39,40,41] 1 [42]
Icefish Chionodraco hamatus Marine 1 [43]
Olive flounder Paralichthys olivaceus Marine 2 [16]
Japanese rice fish Oryzias latipes Freshwater and brackish 1 [16]
Japanese pufferfish Takifugu rubripes Marine, brackish and freshwater 1 [44]
Japanese seabass Lateolabrax japonicus Marine, brackish and freshwater 1 [45]
Largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides Freshwater 2 [46]
Large yellow croaker Pseudosciaena crocea Marine and brackish 1 [47] 1 [48,49]
Mandarin fish Siniperca chuatsi Freshwater 1 [50] 1 [51]
Maori chief Notothenia angustata Marine 5 [9]
Medaka Oryzias melastigma Freshwater and brackish 1 [52] 2 [53]
Miiuy croaker Miichthys miiuy Marine and brackish 1 [54]
Mud dab Limanda limanda Marine 1 [55]
Mud loach Misgurnus mizolepis Freshwater [56]
Olive flounder Paralichthys olivaceus Marine 5 [57]
Orange-spotted grouper Epinephelus coioides Marine and brackish 1 [58] 2 [59,60] 3 [61,62]
Pacific mutton hamlet Alphestes immaculatus Marine 1 [63]
Rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss Marine, brackish and freshwater 4 [64,65] 2 [17] 3 [66,67,68,69]
Redbanded seabream Pagrus auriga Marine 4 [70]
Red sea bream Chrysophrys major Marine 1 [71] 1 [72]
Rockbream Oplegnathus fasciatus Marine 4 [73]
Sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax Marine, brackish and freshwater 1 [74]
Seahorse Hippocampus kuda Marine and brackish 1 [75]
Smallmouth bass Micropterus dolomieu Freshwater 2 [46]
Snowtrout Schizothorax richardsonii Freshwater 1 [76]
Spotted-green pufferfish Tetraodon nigroviridis Freshwater and brackish 2 [44]
Sunshine bass Marine, brackish and freshwater 1 [69]
Thick-lipped lenok Brachymystax lenok Freshwater 1 [77]
Tilapia Oreochromis mossambicus Freshwater and brackish 5 [78] 3 [79]
Turbot Scophthalmus maximus Marine and brackish 2 [80,81]
Winter flounder Pleuronectes americanus Marine 6 [6,82,83] 5 [16]
Witch flounder Glyptocephalus cynoglossus Marine 5 [8]
Yellowtail flounder Pleuronectes ferruginea Marine 1 [8]
Zebrafish Danio rerio Freshwater 3 [44] 2 [84]