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Essential fatty acid requirement of the Chinese prawn, Penaeus chinensis

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Date Issued:
1994
Title: Essential fatty acid requirement of the Chinese prawn, Penaeus chinensis.
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Name(s): Xu, X. L., creator
Ji, W. J., creator
Castell, J. D., creator
O'Dor, R. K., creator
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Article
Issuance: single unit
Date Issued: 1994
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Extent: 13 p.
Physical Description: pdf
Language(s): English
Identifier: 3331878 (digitool), FADT3331878 (IID), fau:6133 (fedora), 10.1016/0044-8486(94)90189-9 (doi)
Note(s): The aim of this study was to determine the essential fatty acid (EFA) requirement of one of the most important commercially cultured crustacean species in the world, Penaeus chinensis. Groups of 16 individually housed juvenile Chinese prawn were fed for 60 days with 12 semi-purified experimental diets. These diets were based on the crab-protein-concentrate Standard Reference Diet and contained either 5% of a mixture of tripalmitin (16:0) and triolein (18:1n−9) (EFA deficient control diet), or 4% of this mixture and a 1% supplement of various purified polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) or highly unsaturated fatty acids (HUFA). Prawns fed the EFA-deficient control diet suffered 100% mortality. The prawns fed a diet containing 1% trilinolenin (18:3n−3) had higher growth and longer survival than that of animals fed the diet containing 1% trilinolein (18:2n−6).
This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00448486 and may be cited as: Xu, X. L., Ji, W. J., Castell, J. D., & O'Dor, R. K. (1994). Essential fatty acid requirement of the Chinese prawn, Penaeus chinensis. Aquaculture 127(1), 29-40. doi:10.1016/0044-8486(94)90189-9
Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #1037.
Subject(s): Penaeus chinensis
Essential fatty acids
Crustacea--Feeding and feeds
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3331878
Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0044-8486(94)90189-9
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Host Institution: FAU