Quantitative dietary requirement of juvenile Atlantic ditch shrimp Palaemonetes varians for lysine,methionine and arginine |
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| Authors: | Jorge Palma José P Andrade Andreas Lemme Dominique P Bureau |
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| Affiliation: | 1. FCT, CCMAR/CIIMAR, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal;2. Evonik GmbH, Hanau, Germany;3. UG/OMNR Fish Nutrition Research Laboratory, Department of Animal and Poultry Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada |
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| Abstract: | This study was carried out to estimate lysine, methionine and arginine dietary requirements of juvenile Atlantic ditch shrimp, Palaemonetes varians. Three series of five isoproteic and isoenergetic diets [45% crude protein (CP), 14.7 MJ digestible energy (DE)/kg] were formulated to contain increasing levels of either lysine (1.2–2.8 g/100 g of diet), methionine (0.5–1.3 g/100 g of diet + 0.8% cysteine) or arginine (1.1–2.7 g/100 g of diet) and adequate levels of all other essential nutrients. Each experimental diet was fed to three groups of postlarvae (initial weight = 17 mg each) for 45 days at 19.9 ± 0.1°C. The dietary requirements for maximizing weight gain of juvenile P. varians, estimated using broken‐line analysis vs. exponential model and expressed as per cent of dry diet, were 2.42 vs. 2.63; 0.96 vs. 0.99 and 2.05 vs. 2.39 for lysine, methionine and arginine respectively. These estimates of requirements of lysine, methionine and arginine for juvenile P. varians appear to be similar to those reported for penaeid shrimp species. |
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| Keywords: | Lysine Methionine Arginine Requirement Shrimp Palaemonidae |
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