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Effect of a dietary phospholipid supplementation on growth and fatty acid composition of European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) and turbot (Scophthalmus maximus L.) juveniles from weaning onwards
Geurden, I.; Coutteau, P.; Sorgeloos, P. (1997). Effect of a dietary phospholipid supplementation on growth and fatty acid composition of European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) and turbot (Scophthalmus maximus L.) juveniles from weaning onwards. Fish Physiol. Biochem. 16(4): 259-272. https://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1007785128042
In: Fish Physiology and Biochemistry. Springer: Dordrecht. ISSN 0920-1742; e-ISSN 1573-5168, more
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Keywords
    Acids > Organic compounds > Organic acids > Fatty acids
    Chemical compounds > Organic compounds > Lipids > Complex lipids
    Developmental stages > Juveniles
    Diets
    Dicentrarchus labrax (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]; Scophthalmus maximus (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
    Marine/Coastal
Author keywords
    phospholipids; essential fatty acids; weaning; marine fish; European seabass; Dicentrarchus labrax; turbot; Scophthalmus maximus

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  • Geurden, I.
  • Coutteau, P., more
  • Sorgeloos, P., more

Abstract
    Two 40-day feeding trials using extruded diets were conducted to assess the effect of a dietary phospholipid (PL) supplementation on growth, survival and fatty acid composition of European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) and turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) from weaning onwards. Two dietary treatments (FO and PL) were tested; both had an identical extruded basis (92,5% total diet weight) coated with a different lipid fraction (7,5% total diet weight). Diet PL contained 2% egg yolk PL (69% pure). In diet FO the PL was replaced by hydrogenated coconut oil. The isolipidic diets contained an equal amount of fish oil ethyl esters providing 1,6% (% diet weight) of n-3 highly unsaturated fatty acids (HUFA). A diet water stability test showed no effect of the PL supplementation on the leaching of the dietary fatty acids. In both fish species weight, but not survival, significantly increased as a result of PL supplementation. Weaning onto the experimental diets resulted in similar changes in the relative percent levels of fatty acids in both species. In general, the percentage of saturated fatty acids leveled off after a rapid increase, while monoenes increased after an initial decrease. Total n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) decreased and total n-6 PUFA remained almost constant. The major effect of the dietary PL on fish fatty acid composition was a 50% increase in n-6 and n-3 HUFAs compared to the PL-free FO diet. The rise in n-6 HUFA may have reflected the higher moiety in the dietary PL. On the other hand this was not the case for the n-3 HUFA since they represented only low levels in the PL fraction (0,1%) compared to that provided by the ethyl esters (1,6%) suggesting a more efficient incorporation of the PL n-3 HUFA than of the ethyl ester n-3 HUFA. A second hypothesis is that the dietary PL may have favored the incorporation of the dietary ethyl ester n-3 HUFA.

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