. 2013 Sep 16;5(9):1555–1573. doi: 10.3390/toxins5091555

Table 1.

Growth performance of red drum fed different concentrations of Aflatoxin B₁ (AFB₁) ¹ and AFB₁ + NovaSil (NS) ^2,3,4.

Variable	Weight gain ⁵ (%)	Survival (%)	Feed efficiency	Variable		Weight gain (%)	Survival (%)	Feed efficiency
AFB₁ (ppm)	Individual treatment means			AFB₁ (ppm)	NS (%)	Individual treatment means
0	332 ^a	80.0 ^a	0.91 ^a	0	0	332 ^ab	80.0	0.91 ^a
0.1	223 ^bc	46.6 ^b	0.62 ^bc	5	0	188 ^c	55.5	0.62 ^c
0.25	224 ^bc	55.5 ^b	0.65 ^bc	5	1	339 ^a	73.3	0.82 ^ab
0.5	254 ^ab	60.0 ^ab	0.75 ^ab	5	2	218 ^bc	57.7	0.71 ^bc
1	212 ^bc	60.0 ^ab	0.73 ^abc	p-value		0.039	0.261	0.005
2	136 ^c	60.0 ^ab	0.49 ^c	Pooled Std. Error		7.047	1.801	0.008
3	183 ^bc	62.2 ^ab	0.67 ^bc	AFB₁ (ppm)	NS (%)	Means of main effect
5	188 ^bc	55.5 ^b	0.62 ^bc	0		332	80.0	0.91 ^a
R²	0.229	0.010	0.100	5		249	62.2	0.72 ^b
p-value	0.005	0.132	0.030		0	260 ^a	67.7	0.77
Pooled Std. Error	5.189	1.309	0.013		1	339 ^ab	73.3	0.82
					2	218 ^b	57.7	0.71
						ANOVA: p-values
				AFB₁		0.083	0.138	0.003
				NS		0.043	0.387	0.029

¹ Aflatoxin B₁; ² NovaSil; ³ Values are means of three replicate groups of fish (n = 3); ⁴ Values in a column that do not have the same superscript are significantly different according to Duncan’s multiple range test (p < 0.05); ⁵ Initial average weight was 2.1 ± 0.1 g/fish.