. 2019 Nov 29;98(1):skz363. doi: 10.1093/jas/skz363

Table 3.

AA digestibilities (%) of BSFL differing in age using the precision-fed cecectomized rooster assay

Item	BSFL0¹	BSFL11	BSFL14	BSFL18	BSFL23	BSFL29	SEM	P-value
Indispensable AA
Arginine	90.77	93.42	94.05	94.09	95.52	90.64	0.647	0.1623
Histidine	82.99^y	89.58^x	89.09^x	90.91^x	87.82^x	82.87^y	0.959	0.0301
Isoleucine	86.97	89.29	90.67	92.06	92.52	86.72	0.718	0.0504
Leucine	87.02^ab	91.22^ab	92.04^ab	93.58^a	92.90^ab	85.99^b	0.852	0.0186
Lysine	87.75	89.12	91.03	90.49	91.36	90.16	0.721	0.7619
Methionine	89.43^b	89.15^b	90.79^ab	92.63^ab	96.04^a	92.78^ab	0.670	0.0108
Phenylalanine	85.81^b	88.46^ab	90.05^ab	92.34^ab	93.98^a	90.18^ab	0.764	0.0165
Threonine	87.37	87.01	88.55	92.16	92.67	88.08	0.921	0.3176
Tryptophan	89.98^ab	89.50^b	92.09^ab	94.43^a	94.46^a	92.56^ab	0.551	0.0109
Valine	80.88	79.75	83.79	85.29	81.64	75.34	1.117	0.1383
Selected dispensable AA
Alanine	89.99^ab	92.09^a	92.53^a	93.95^a	91.46^a	82.15^b	1.024	0.0023
Aspartic acid	89.88	88.02	90.22	92.55	94.28	91.00	0.686	0.1134
Cysteine	79.22	81.44	78.38	79.00	87.40	81.89	1.809	0.7679
Glutamic acid	90.42	89.28	88.41	89.85	92.08	88.01	0.784	0.7484
Glycine	76.29	82.56	70.27	78.37	84.96	73.72	2.259	0.4602
Proline	85.82	88.57	89.25	91.39	90.18	83.04	0.957	0.1039
Serine	86.71	86.87	89.51	90.42	91.12	81.47	1.111	0.1112
Tyrosine	85.06^b	89.31^ab	91.03^ab	93.39^a	91.77^ab	86.94^ab	0.807	0.0097

¹BSFL0, day 0, day of hatch of black soldier fly larvae; BSFL11, day 11 of age of black soldier fly larvae; BSFL14, day 14 of age of black soldier fly larvae; BSFL18, day 18 of age of black soldier fly larvae; BSFL23, day 23 of age of black soldier fly larvae; BSFL29, day 29 of age of black soldier fly larvae.

^a,bWithin a row, means lacking a common superscript differ (P < 0.05); n, 4 roosters per treatment.

^x,yWithin a row, means lacking a common superscript differ (P < 0.10); n, 4 roosters per treatment.