Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-g7gxr Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-10T14:52:39.715Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The requirement of the gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata L.) for nicotinic acid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

P. C. Morris  and
S. J. Davies
P. C. Morris
Affiliation:
Fish Nutrition Unit, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon PL4 8AA
S. J. Davies
Affiliation:
Fish Nutrition Unit, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon PL4 8AA
Get access

Abstract

Semi-purified diets were used to determine the nicotinic acid requirement of the gilthead seabream, Sparus aurata. Vitamin losses during food manufacture were minimal resulting in dietary levels which were close to the declared content. Dietary nicotinic acid contents of 52·21 mg/kg and below resulted in sub-optimum growth, reduced food efficiency and poor values for apparent net protein utilization. Diets containing less than 28·67 mg/kg gave a low proportion of carcass lipid concomitant with an elevation in the relative content of carcass moisture. Although gross deficiency symptoms were not observed, a reduced hepatosomatic index and a slightly lower plasma glucose concentration were detected amongst the fish given diets supplemented with nicotinic acid at the level of 25 mg/kg or less. Based upon the results of broken line analysis and data derived by modelling the weight gain of the fish, the nicotinic acid requirement of Sparus aurata fingerlings lies between 63 and 83 mg/kg of diet or 1·57 to 2·07 µg/kg body weight per day.

Keywords

nicotinic acidseabreamSparus auratavitamin B complex
Type
Research Article
Information
Animal Science , Volume 61 , Issue 2 , October 1995 , pp. 437 - 443
Copyright
Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1995

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Allinson, L. N. 1960. ‘Sunburning’ fingerling lake trout with ultra-violet light and the effect of a niacin fortified diet. Progressive Fish-Culturist 22:114–116.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Andrews, J. W. and Murai, T. 1978. Dietary niacin requirements for channel catfish. journal of Nutrition 108: 1508–1511.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Aoe, H., Masuda, I. and Takeda, T. 1967. Water-soluble vitamin requirements of carp — III. Requirement for niacin. Bulletin of the Japanese Society of Scientific Fisheries 33: 681–685.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Association of Official Analytical Chemists. 1990. Official methods of analysis. 15th ed. (ed. Herlich, K.). Association of Official Analytical Chemists, Arlington, Virginia.Google Scholar
Baker, R. T. M. and Davies, S. J. 1995. The effect of pyridoxine supplementation on dietary protein utilisation in gilthead seabream fry. Animal Science 60:157–162.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Barnes, H. and Blackstock, J. 1973. Estimation of lipids in marine animals and tissues: detailed investigation of the sulphophosophvanillin method for ‘total’ lipids. journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 12:103–118.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blum, R. A. 1991. Metabolism and biochemical function. In Niacin in animal nutrition (ed. Fenster, R. and Blum, R. A.), pp. 8–9. Roche index No. 2288, Basel, Switzerland.Google Scholar
Butthep, C., Sitasit, P. and Boonyaratpalin, M. 1983. Water-soluble vitamins essential for the growth of Clarias. In Finfisli nutrition in Asia. Proceedings of the Asian finfish nutrition icorksliop, Singapore (ed. Cho, C. Y., Cowey, C. B. and Watanabe, T.), pp. 118–129. IDRC, Ottawa, Canada.Google Scholar
Chuang, J-L. 1991. Fish and shrimp. In Niacin in animal nutrition (ed. Fenster, R. and Blum, R. A.), pp. 34–37. Roche index No. 2288, Basel, Switzerland.Google Scholar
Duncan, D. 1955. Multiple range tests and multiple F tests. Biometrics 11:1–42.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Halver, J. E. 1957. Nutrition of salmonid fishes. III. Water-soluble vitamin requirements of chinook salmon. Journal of Nutrition 62: 225–243.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Halver, J. E. 1989. The vitamins. In Fish nutrition (ed. Halver, J. E.), pp. 32–111. Academic Press, London.Google Scholar
McLaren, B. A., Keller, D., O'Donnel, D. J. and Elvehjem, C. A. 1947. The nutrition of rainbow trout. I. Studies on vitamin requirements. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 15:169–185.Google ScholarPubMed
Morris, P. C. 1994. The water-soluble vitamin nutrition of the gilthead seabream, Sparus aurata L. Ph.D. thesis, University of Plymouth.Google Scholar
Phillips, A. M. and Brockway, D. R. 1947. The niacin and biotin requirement of trout. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 77: 152–159.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Poston, H. A. 1969. The effect of excess levels of niacin on the lipid metabolism of fingerling brook trout. Fish research bulletin, State of New York Conservation Department, Albany, no. 31, pp. 9–12.Google Scholar
Poston, H. A. and DiLorenzo, R. N. 1973. Tryptophan conversion to niacin in the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis). Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine 114:110–112.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Poston, H. A. and Wolfe, M. J. 1985. Niacin requirement for optimum growth, feed conversion and protection of rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) from ultraviolet-B irradiation. journal of Fish Diseases 8: 451–460.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Yone, Y. and Fujii, M. 1974. Studies on the nutrition of the Red Seabream. X. Qualitative requirements for water soluble vitamins. Reports of Fish Research Laboratory, Kyushu University 2: 22–32.Google Scholar