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Effects of dietary lipid composition on growth, food utilization and body composition of European eel (Anguilla anguilla)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

M. García-Gallego ,
H. Akharbach  and
M. de la Higuera
M. García-Gallego
Affiliation:
Departmentu de Biología Animal y Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Campus Fuentenueva, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
H. Akharbach
Affiliation:
Departmentu de Biología Animal y Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Campus Fuentenueva, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
M. de la Higuera
Affiliation:
Departmentu de Biología Animal y Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Campus Fuentenueva, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
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Abstract

Six experimental diets with similar contents of macronutrients (450, 300 and 70 g/kg dry matter of protein, carbohydrate and fat, respectively) and, therefore, total energy, hut differing in the composition of lipid component, were each given to three replicate groups of European eel. Different fat mixtures were used to formulate diets with different levels of fatty acids considered as essential for fish: linoleic (18: 2n6), linolenic (18: ЗпЗ) and highly unsaturated fatty acid (HUFA)n3, mainly EPA (20: 5n3) and DHA (22: 6n3). One tested diet contained low levels of all the three components, three diets had a high level of each one of these, the fifth diet contained high levels of both 18C fatty acids and, finally, a sixth diet incorporated simultaneously high amounts of 18: 2n6 and (HUFA)nЗ.

Dietary lipid composition did not significantly affect food intake or protein and fat apparent digestibility. However, growth and food efficiency were the best with the diet containing approximately 5 g/kg of both linoleic and linolenic acids. Although all groups increased their body fat content over the experiment, the fatty acid composition of total muscle lipids was rather insensitive to lipid dietary composition, perhaps due to the high body fat content of the eels prior to the experiment.

Keywords

eelsfatty acidsfisheslipidsnutrition
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Research Article
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Animal Science , Volume 69 , Issue 1 , August 1999 , pp. 157 - 165
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1999

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