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Effects of dietary whole and defatted Arthrospira platensis (Cyanobacterium) on growth, body composition and pigmentation of the yellow catfish Pelteobagrus fulvidraco

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The cyanobacterium Arthrospira platensis is regarded as a potential future source of food for humans due to its superior nutritional value compared with many conventional crops. An 8-week feeding trial was conducted to evaluate nutritional and pigmentation effects of whole A. platensis, defatted A. platensis and its lipid extracts in diets for the yellow catfish Pelteobagrus fulvidraco. Four percent whole A. platensis (AP4), 0.4% A. platensis lipid extracts (AL0.4), and 4% defatted A. platensis (AR4) were used as experimental diets, and a diet without any A. platensis was as the control diet (AP0). The AP4 and AL0.4 groups had no effects on the growth performance and feed utilization in yellow catfish; however, the AR4 group was significantly lower than the AP0 group in terms of specific growth rate and feed efficiency (P < 0.05). AP4 and AL0.4 groups significantly increased the body protein of fish (P < 0.05). The skin color was significantly improved in the AP4 and AL0.4 groups, as well as the fish skin and plasma lutein contents (P < 0.05). Correlations between skin color and the lutein contents in liver and muscles were weak, whereas the correlations between skin color and the lutein contents in skin and plasma were significant and strong. The results suggest that whole A. platensis and its lipid extracts can be functional additives to improve whole body protein and skin color of fish, while defatted A. platensis showed no advantage in yellow catfish diets.

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The study was funded by the National Key R & D Program of China (2018YFD0900400), the China Agriculture Research System (CARS-46), by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32061133009), the Fund Project of the State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology (2019FBZ02, 2019FBZ05), and the Shandong Provincial Agricultural Seed Engineering Project (2017LZN003). The authors would like to thank Guanghan Nie for his technical assistance.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, The Innovative Academy of Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 430072, Wuhan, China

    Cui Liu, Zheng Chen, Haokun Liu, Dong Han, Junyan Jin, Yunxia Yang, Xiaoming Zhu & Shouqi Xie

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Cui Liu, Zheng Chen & Shouqi Xie

  3. Center for Microalgal Biotechnology and Biofuels, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430072, China

    Yanhua Li, Li Yuan & Qiang Hu

  4. Hubei Engineering Research Center for Aquatic Animal Nutrition and Feed, Wuhan, Hubei, China

    Dong Han, Xiaoming Zhu & Shouqi Xie

  5. Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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Liu, C., Li, Y., Chen, Z. et al. Effects of dietary whole and defatted Arthrospira platensis (Cyanobacterium) on growth, body composition and pigmentation of the yellow catfish Pelteobagrus fulvidraco. J Appl Phycol 33, 2251–2259 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10811-021-02445-9

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