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. 2015 Mar 17;10(3):e0119518. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119518

Table 8. Effects of dietary PA levels on liver fatty acids composition of juvenile blunt snout bream.

Dietary PA levels
3.39 10.54 19.28 31.04 48.38 59.72
Fatty acid composition (% of total fatty acids)
C14:0 1.66±0.02bc 1.76±0.03c 1.64±0.01b 1.38±0.01a 1.42±0.00a 1.36±0.08a
C16:0 19.82±0.75a 20.51±0.52a 23.97±0.77b 24.20±0.72b 24.15±0.41b 24.07±0.70b
C18:0 13.89±0.68 13.53±0.80 13.00±0.05 13.30±0.01 13.19±0.03 13.43±0.06
C20:0 0.13±0.00b 0.12±0.01b 0.13±0.01b 0.10±0.01a 0.13±0.01b 0.11±0.01a
ΣSFA 35.49±0.47a 35.93±1.27a 38.74±0.72b 38.98±0.71b 38.89±0.40b 38.98±0.62b
C16:1n-9 3.23±0.26bc 3.38±0.52c 3.26±0.06bc 3.38±0.03c 2.530±10a 2.78±0.08ab
C18:1n-9 31.34±0.50 31.41±0.76 30.92±0.16 30.03±0.30 30.70±1.71 30.02±0.69
C20:1n-9 0.88±0.03b 0.82±0.04ab 0.73±0.05a 0.75±0.05a 0.73±0.05a 0.78±0.02ab
ΣMUFA 35.44±0.34 35.61±0.96 34.91±0.24 34.15±0.30 33.96±0.99 33.57±0.78
C18:2n-6 13.17±0.04 13.15±0.64 12.10±0.60 13.13±0.30 13.50±0.54 13.19±0.34
C18:3n-3 0.89±0.11 0.88±0.13 0.82±0.02 0.77±0.03 0.94±0.03 0.83±0.20
C20:5n-3(EPA) 0.93±0.06 0.81±0.08 0.71±0.10 0.75±0.03 0.77±0.08 0.77±0.06
C22:5n-3 0.53±0.12 0.54±0.15 0.52±0.12 0.58±0.00 0.58±0.11 0.57±0.03
C22:6n-3(DHA) 6.34±0.82b 5.64±0.58ab 4.98±0.22ab 4.00±0.25a 3.97±0.50a 4.70±0.58ab
ΣPUFA 21.87±0.69c 21.02±0.51bc 19.14±0.46a 19.98±0.30ab 20.51±0.65abc 20.55±0.14abc
EPA+DHA 7.27±0.81b 6.45±0.62ab 5.69±0.28ab 5.50±0.28a 5.48±0.26a 5.96±0.53ab

Values are presented as mean ± SD of four replications (n = 4). Means in the same row with different superscripts are significantly different (P < 0.05).