Aquaculture Nutrition

Responses of Growth Performance, Body Composition and Tissue Free Amino Acid Contents of Grouper (Epinephelus coioides) to Dietary Taurine Content

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  • 1. Xiamen Key Laboratory for Feed Quality Testing and Safety Evaluation, Fisheries College of Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, China;
    2. Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture for the East China Sea, Ministry of Agriculture, Xiamen 361021, China

Received date: 2014-10-21

  Online published: 2015-03-18

Abstract

This experiment was conducted to study the effects of dietary taurine content on growth performance, body composition and tissue free amino acid contents of grouper (Epinephelus coioides). Casein and gelatin were used as protein sources, a low taurine content basal diet was formulated. The taurine was supplemented to the basal diet at 0 (control), 0.4%, 0.8%, 1.2% and 1.6%, respectively, to formulate 5 experimental diets. Three hundred juvenile groupers with the average body weight of (19.14±0.06) g were randomly divided into 5 groups with 3 replicates per group and 20 fish per replicate. Five groups of fish were allocated one of five experimental diets. The feeding trial lasted for 56 d. The results showed as follows: compared with control group, the weight gain rate, feed intake rate and feed efficiency were significantly increased and viscerasomatic index was significantly decreased in taurine supplementation groups (P<0.05), but no significant differences were found in hepatosomatic index and condition factor among all groups (P>0.05). Compared with control group, the whole-body crude protein content was significantly increased (P<0.05) and whole-body crude lipid content was significantly decreased in taurine supplementation groups (P<0.05), but no significant differences were found in whole-body moisture and ash contents among all groups (P>0.05). The contents of total non-essential amino acids, total amino acids, free serine in liver and muscle, and free methionine content in liver in taurine supplementation groups were significantly lower than those in control group (P<0.05). Taurine content in serum, liver, muscle and whole-body of grouper showed an increasing tendency with the dietary taurine content increasing, and there were significant positive correlations between them and dietary taurine content (r>0.907, P<0.05). With the dietary taurine content increasing, the taurine retention in liver was increased and that in muscle was firstly incresed and then decreased; moreover, the taurine retention in muscle was higher than that in liver in all groups. In conclusion, a certain content of taurine in diet can improve the growth and feeding, decrease whole-body lipid deposition, increase whole-body protein deposition, and decrease tissue free amino acid contents of grouper. Regression analysis based on weight gain rate indicates that the optimal dietary taurine content of grouper is 1.04%.

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ZHOU Mingwen, WANG Hewei, YE Jidan . Responses of Growth Performance, Body Composition and Tissue Free Amino Acid Contents of Grouper (Epinephelus coioides) to Dietary Taurine Content[J]. Chinese Journal of Animal Nutrition, 2015 , 27(3) : 785 -794 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1006-267x.2015.03.016

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