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dc.contributor.authorSantiago, C.B.
dc.contributor.authorLovell, R.T.
dc.date.accessioned2011-06-22T09:35:35Z
dc.date.available2011-06-22T09:35:35Z
dc.date.issued1994
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10862/390
dc.description.abstractThe free essential amino acid levels in muscle of young Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) after feeding graded amounts of a corresponding test amino acid were measured in 9 separate experiments to determine if free amino acids indicate requirements for growth. Data were analyzed by the broken line regression method. Breakpoints for free threonine and free isoleucine were near the threonine and isoleucine requirements for growth. Breakpoints for free lysine, free histidine, and free valine were much higher than the lysine, histidine, and valine requirements for growth, respectively. Levels of other free essential amino acids in muscle behaved erratically or increased linearly as the dietary test amino acid increased. Amino acid requirements as estimated by levels of free essential amino acids in muscle did not consistently confirm amino acid requirements for growth of Nile tilapia.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAsian Fisheries Societyen
dc.relation.ispartofIn: De Silva, S.S. (ed.). Fish Nutrition Research in Asia. Proceedings of the Fifth Asian Fish Nutrition Workshop, January 1993, Udorn Thani, Thailand. Manila, Philippines: Asian Fisheries Society. AFS Spec. Publ. 9. pp. 1-7en
dc.subjectFinfishesen
dc.subjectTilapia culture -- Feeding and feedsen
dc.subjectAmino acidsen
dc.subjectNutritional requirementsen
dc.subjectBody compositionen
dc.subjectPhilippinesen
dc.subjectTilapiaen
dc.subjectNile tilapiaen
dc.subjectOreochromis niloticusen
dc.subject.lccVF SP 188
dc.titleEvaluation of free essential amino acid in muscle of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), as a basis of amino acid requirement for growth.en
dc.typeConference paperen


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