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Dietary isoleucine requirement of fingerling catla, Catla catla (Hamilton), based on growth, protein productive value, isoleucine retention efficiency and carcass composition

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In order to determine the dietary isoleucine requirement of fingerling catla, Catla catla (4.25 ± 0.15 cm, 0.61 ± 0.04 g), six isonitrogenous (33.0 % crude protein) and isocaloric (13.7 kJ/g digestible energy) amino acid test diets containing casein, gelatin and l-crystalline amino acids with graded levels of isoleucine (0.5, 0.75, 1.0, 1.25, 1.5 and 1.75 % of the dry diet) were prepared. Triplicate groups of fish were randomly stocked in eighteen 70-l indoor polyvinyl circular troughs at a density of 25 fingerling per trough provided with a water flow-through system (1–1.5 l min−1). The experimental diets were fed to fish to apparent satiation at 08:00, 12:30 and 17:30 h for 12 weeks. Growth of the fish was found to increase with the incremental levels of dietary isoleucine up to 1.25 % of the dry diet. Quadratic regression analysis at 95 % maximum response of absolute weight gain (6.18 g fish−1), protein productive value (0.32), isoleucine retention efficiency (71.91 g fish−1), RNA/DNA ratio (4.81) and carcass protein (15.7 %) yielded the optimum isoleucine requirement in the range of 1.13–1.18 % of the dry diet, corresponding to 3.42–3.58 % of dietary protein. Data generated in this experiment would be useful to formulate isoleucine-balanced, cost-effective quality feeds for fingerling catla.

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Abbreviations

AWG:

Absolute weight gain

FCR:

Feed conversion ratio

PPV:

Protein productive value

IRE:

Isoleucine retention efficiency

MS-222:

Tricaine methane sulphonate

VSI:

Viscerosomatic index

HSI:

Hepatosomatic index

CF:

Condition factor

CP:

Crude protein

TCA:

Trichloroacetic acid

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The authors are grateful to the Chairman, Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, for providing necessary laboratory facilities and also to Prof. John E. Halver for supporting the Fish Nutrition Research Programme at this laboratory. We also gratefully acknowledge the financial assistance of Maulana Azad National Fellowship-University Grant Commissions for minority students for the year 2010–2011 awarded to one of us (Seemab Zehra) and generous funding received under DST-FIST Programme, New Delhi, in the priority area of Fish Nutrition.

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Zehra, S., Khan, M.A. Dietary isoleucine requirement of fingerling catla, Catla catla (Hamilton), based on growth, protein productive value, isoleucine retention efficiency and carcass composition. Aquacult Int 21, 1243–1259 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10499-013-9627-8

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