Table 4.

Proximate compositions (%, wet weight) of hepatopancreas and muscle in juvenile mud crab Scylla paramamosain fed with different dietary ARA levels.

Items	Dietary ARA levels (g kg−1)						ANOVA	Linear		Quadratic
	0.40	2.50	4.60	8.90	12.50	15.70	p value	p value	R 2	p value	R 2
Hepatopancreas
Moisture	72.56 ± 0.06	72.75 ± 0.10	72.63 ± 0.04	72.66 ± 0.07	72.71 ± 0.09	72.51 ± 0.11	0.390	0.676	0.051	0.282	0.043
Crude protein	11.60 ± 0.12	11.65 ± 0.03	11.52 ± 0.29	11.55 ± 0.14	11.58 ± 0.12	11.53 ± 0.12	0.190	0.349	0.004	0.262	0.052
Crude lipid	11.37 ± 0.17d	10.68 ± 0.27c	10.07 ± 0.01bc	9.53 ± 0.01b	9.48 ± 0.04b	8.58 ± 0.01a	0.000	0.000	0.921	0.000	0.920
Ash	1.52 ± 0.67	1.51 ± 0.48	1.53 ± 0.55	1.60 ± 0.23	1.58 ± 0.41	1.53 ± 0.41	0.737	0.366	0.008	0.512	0.036
Muscle
Moisture	79.53 ± 1.19	79.60 ± 1.55	79.50 ± 1.10	79.61 ± 1.18	79.67 ± 1.50	79.61 ± 1.89	0.960	0.485	0.030	0.790	0.098
Crude protein	16.55 ± 0.62	16.56 ± 0.88	16.58 ± 1.33	16.43 ± 0.58	16.58 ± 0.94	16.63 ± 1.38	0.787	0.656	0.049	0.645	0.069
Crude lipid	0.86 ± 0.29e	0.72 ± 0.17d	0.66 ± 0.2cd	0.60 ± 0.09bc	0.52 ± 0.18ab	6a	0.000	0.000	0.905	0.000	0.943
Ash	2.89 ± 0.50	2.92 ± 0.35	2.91 ± 0.26	2.95 ± 0.20	2.89 ± 0.32	2.87 ± 0.48	0.698	0.710	0.053	0.343	0.017

Data are reported as the mean ± SD of three replicates (n = 3). Values within the same row with different superscripts are significantly different (p < 0.05).