Table 2.
Haemoglobin, mean corpuscular haemoglobin (MCH), red blood cells (RBC) and white blood cells (WBC) in European seabass fed dietary treatments during 2 and 4 weeks.
| Parameters | Dietary treatments | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NTRP | CTRL | TRP 13 | TRP 17 | ||||||
| 2 weeks | 4 weeks | 2 weeks | 4 weeks | 2 weeks | 4 weeks | 2 weeks | 4 weeks | ||
| Haemoglobin | (g dl) | 1.07 ± 0.15 | 0.87 ± 0.33 | 1.13 ± 0.27 | 0.70 ± 0.25 | 1.17 ± 0.10 | 0.72 ± 0.27 | 1.01 ± 0.15 | 0.80 ± 0.10 |
| MCH | (pg cell−1) | 5.55 ± 1.10 | 4.30 ± 1.40 | 5.67 ± 1.18 | 3.48 ± 0.66 | 5.66 ± 0.64 | 3.39 ± 1.00 | 5.43 ± 0.94 | 3.62 ± 0.62 |
| RBC | (×106 µl−1) | 1.98 ± 0.32 | 2.03 ± 0.37 | 2.03 ± 0.48 | 1.96 ± 0.48 | 2.09 ± 0.29 | 2.14 ± 0.45 | 1.87 ± 0.22 | 2.23 ± 0.24 |
| WBC | (×104 µl−1) | 7.10 ± 2.12 | 9.14 ± 3.57 | 6.72 ± 1.26 | 9.36 ± 2.32 | 7.51 ± 1.84 | 8.33 ± 2.62 | 7.56 ± 1.42 | 10.10 ± 1.82 |
| Two-way ANOVA | |||||||||
| Parameters | Time | Diet | Time × Diet | ||||||
| Haemoglobin | <0.001 | ns | ns | ||||||
| MCH | <0.001 | ns | ns | ||||||
| RBC | ns | ns | ns | ||||||
| WBC | <0.001 | ns | ns | ||||||
Values are presented as means ± SD (n = 9). P-values from two-way ANOVA (p ≤ 0.05).