The use of live food as a vehicle of soybean meal for nutritional programming of largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides.

ABSTRACT: Nutritional Programming (NP) has been studied as a means of improving dietary plant protein (PP) utilization in different fish species. This study investigated the use of enriched live feed as a vehicle for NP in larval fish. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of NP induced during the larval stage via PP-enriched live feed on: (1) growth performance; (2) expression of genes associated with inflammation and any morphological changes in the intestine; and (3) muscle free amino acid composition in largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) during its later life stages. Two diets were used in this study, a fish meal (FM)-based diet, and a soybean mean (SBM)-based diet, serving as the PP diet. There were 4 groups in this study. The two control groups, ( +) Control and (-) Cont

SUBMITTER: Molinari GS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8149696 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature