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Effect of a size-based selection program on blood metabolites and immune response of Litopenaeus vannamei juveniles fed different dietary carbohydrate levels |
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| Authors: | Cristina Pascual Leticia Arena Gerard Cuzon Gabriela Gaxiola Gabriel Taboada Manuel Valenzuela Carlos Rosas |
| Institution: | a Laboratorio de Ecología y Biología Marina Experimental, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, Calle 26, No 1 Playa Norte Cd. del Carmen, Campeche, Mexico b Centre Océanologique du Pacifique, BP 7004, Taravao, Tahiti, French Polynesia |
| Abstract: | Blood metabolites in wild and seventh-generation cultivated shrimp were measured to determine how size-based selection could alter the nutritional and immunological conditions of Litopenaeus vannamei. Wild L. vannamei juveniles and a sample of seventh-generation cultured shrimp were acclimated under identical conditions. During 55 days, shrimp were fed a high (HCHO: 44%) or a low (LCHO: 3%) carbohydrate diet for 55 days. Wild shrimp showed a direct relation between dietary CHO and lactate, protein and hemocyte levels indicating that dietary CHO was used for protein synthesis via transamination pathways. In seventh-generation cultured shrimp these parameters were inversely proportional to dietary CHO level, indicating the capacity to synthesize protein from dietary CHO was repressed in cultured shrimp. Farmed shrimp showed a limited capacity to respond to LCHO diets demonstrating high protein dependence in their metabolism and immune response. These results demonstrate that during size-based breeding programs other metabolic process than CHO catabolism can be selected. The incapacity of shrimp to use dietary CHO could limit protein reduction of diets and limit the efforts of the shrimp industry to be ecologically and environmentally profitable. |
| Keywords: | Blood metabolites Litopenaeus vannamei Artificial selection Immune response Dietary carbohydrates levels |
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