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In order to better formulate an artificial shrimp diet, the protein composition of shrimp was assessed and the essential amino acids determined. Penaeus aztecus were treated to remove lipids, carbohydrates and other interfering substances, and the protein was hydrolyzed to its constituent amino acids. The amino acids were then quantitatively analyzed by gasliquid chromatography as their trimethylsilyl derivatives. The essential amino acids were then determined. Shrimp were injected with 14C-labeled glucose and analyses performed to determine which amino acids then exhibited radioactivity, i.e., were synthesized from the labeled glucose. Those amino acids which were not manufactured from the glucose were categorized as “essential”.
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Shewbart, K.L., Mies, W.L. & Ludwig, P.D. Identification and quantitative analysis of the amino acids present in protein of the brown shrimp Penaeus aztecus . Marine Biology 16, 64–67 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00347849
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