Table 2.
Amino acid composition of the six experimental diets (dry matter basis, g/kg).
| Ingredients | Experiment diets | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DBWLM0 | DBWLM15 | DBWLM30 | DBWLM45 | DBWLM60 | DBWLM75 | DBWLM | |
| Essential amino acids (EAAS) | |||||||
| Arginine | 23.9 | 24.7 | 24.4 | 23.2 | 22.7 | 24.8 | 35.1 |
| Histidine | 8.3 | 8.7 | 8.7 | 8.6 | 8.4 | 9.4 | 20.7 |
| Isoleucine | 14.1 | 14.7 | 14.5 | 13.9 | 13.6 | 15.0 | 28.1 |
| Leucine | 24.5 | 25.5 | 25.0 | 24.0 | 23.3 | 25.4 | 45.6 |
| Lysine | 16.7 | 17.0 | 16.7 | 15.7 | 15.1 | 16.5 | 37.1 |
| Methionine | 7.6 | 7.8 | 7.5 | 7.1 | 6.9 | 7.0 | 53.0 |
| Phenylalanine | 21.5 | 23.0 | 23.9 | 24.3 | 24.0 | 27.2 | 49.9 |
| Threonine | 14.1 | 14.5 | 14.3 | 13.6 | 13.3 | 14.4 | 26.4 |
| Valine | 16.2 | 17.1 | 17.2 | 16.9 | 16.5 | 18.4 | 39.0 |
| Nonessential amino acids (NEAAS) | |||||||
| Aspartate | 35.9 | 37.1 | 36.2 | 34.7 | 33.9 | 36.7 | 43.4 |
| Alanine | 18.6 | 19.6 | 19.7 | 19.1 | 18.7 | 20.8 | 55.6 |
| Glutamate | 56.0 | 58.6 | 57.8 | 55.4 | 54.3 | 59.3 | 89.7 |
| Glycine | 20.2 | 20.8 | 20.4 | 19.1 | 18.7 | 20.0 | 30.2 |
| Proline | 15.6 | 16.5 | 16.8 | 16.7 | 16.4 | 18.3 | 35.6 |
| Tyrosine | 12.8 | 14.3 | 15.3 | 16.4 | 16.1 | 19.3 | 51.7 |
| Serine | 15.7 | 16.4 | 16.3 | 15.8 | 15.4 | 17.0 | 27.8 |
| Total essential amino acids (TEAAS) | 146.9 | 153.0 | 152.2 | 147.3 | 143.8 | 158.1 | 287.2 |
| Total nonessential amino acids (TNEAAS) | 174.8 | 183.3 | 182.0 | 177.2 | 173.5 | 198.6 | 334.0 |
| Total amino acids (TAAS) | 321.7 | 336.3 | 334.2 | 324.5 | 317.3 | 356.7 | 621.2 |