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. 2021 Apr 13;17:158. doi: 10.1186/s12917-021-02869-y

Table 1.

Effect of Arthrospira platensis, individually or combined with exogenous CAZymes, on growth performance parameters of piglets

Diets
Control AP AP + R AP + L SEM p-value
Initial weight (kg) 12.1 11.7 12.1 11.9 0.15 0.808
Final weight (kg) 31.0b 28.3a 28.4a 27.8a 0.40 0.009
ADFI (g) 997 960 943 960 12.8 0.521
ADG (g) 677a 593b 582b 567b 12.4 0.001
FCR 1.48a 1.62b 1.62b 1.69b 0.023 < 0.001

Dietary treatments: cereal and soybean meal-based diet (control); basal diet with 10% of Arthrospira platensis (AP);

basal diet with 10% of Arthrospira platensis supplemented with 0.005% of Rovabio® (AP + R); basal diet with 10% of

Arthrospira platensis supplemented with 0.01% of lysozyme (AP + L). ADFI average daily feed intake, ADG average daily weight gain, FCR feed conversion ratio