Dietary l‐lysine requirement of fingerling stinging catfish,Heteropneustes fossilis (Bloch) for optimizing growth,feed conversion,protein and lysine deposition |
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Authors: | Farhat Mukhtar A Khan |
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Institution: | Fish Nutrition Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, , Aligarh, India |
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Abstract: | Dietary lysine requirement of fingerling Heteropneustes fossilis (6.96 ± 0.05 g) was quantified by conducting 12‐week feeding trial in a flow‐through system at 28°C. Casein–gelatin based isonitrogenous (38% CP) and isocaloric (14.7 kJ g?1 DE) amino acid test diets with six levels of dietary lysine (1.5%, 1.75%, 2.0%, 2.25%, 2.5%, 3.0% dry diet) were fed to apparent satiation in triplicates. Broken‐line and second‐degree polynomial regression analyses at 95% plateau of absolute weight gain (AWG; g fish?1), feed conversion ratio (FCR), protein deposition (PD; g fish?1) and lysine deposition (LD; g fish?1) exhibited lysine requirement between 2.0% to 2.3% of the dry diet, corresponding to 5.3–6.1% protein. |
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Keywords: | lysine requirement fingerling Heteropneustes fossilis |
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