Table 4.
Muscle amino acid composition (g/kg of fresh weight) of blunt snout bream fed the trial diets (Mean ± SEM, n = 4).
| Amino acids | LL | HL | P value |
|---|---|---|---|
| EAA | 9.36 ± 0.13b | 9.90 ± 0.11a | 0.019 |
| Leucine | 1.51 ± 0.02b | 1.60 ± 0.02a | 0.008 |
| Isoleucine | 0.83 ± 0.01b | 0.86 ± 0.01a | 0.029 |
| Threonine | 0.83 ± 0.01b | 0.87 ± 0.01a | 0.026 |
| Methionine | 0.49 ± 0.02 | 0.54 ± 0.03 | 0.226 |
| Valine | 0.88 ± 0.01b | 0.92 ± 0.01a | 0.018 |
| Tyrosine | 0.62 ± 0.01b | 0.67 ± 0.01a | 0.020 |
| Phenylalanine | 0.76 ± 0.01b | 0.80 ± 0.01a | 0.019 |
| Lysine | 1.76 ± 0.02b | 1.87 ± 0.02a | 0.010 |
| Histidine | 0.52 ± 0.01 | 0.57 ± 0.02 | 0.113 |
| Arginine | 1.16 ± 0.02 | 1.20 ± 0.01 | 0.156 |
| NEAA | 8.30 ± 0.12 | 8.53 ± 0.11 | 0.212 |
| Glutamate | 2.89 ± 0.04b | 3.04 ± 0.04a | 0.031 |
| Glycine | 0.95 ± 0.04 | 0.88 ± 0.02 | 0.180 |
| Alanine | 1.10 ± 0.02 | 1.13 ± 0.02 | 0.291 |
| Cystine | 0.15 ± 0.01 | 0.15 ± 0.01 | 0.864 |
| Serine | 0.75 ± 0.01 | 0.78 ± 0.01 | 0.255 |
| Aspartic acid | 1.87 ± 0.03 | 1.98 ± 0.03 | 0.864 |
| Proline | 0.58 ± 0.02 | 0.56 ± 0.01 | 0.387 |
| AA | 17.65 ± 0.25 | 18.42 ± 0.21 | 0.059 |
EAA: essential amino acids; NEAA: nonessential amino acids; AA: total amino acids. Within the same row, values with different superscripts are significantly, different (independent t-test, P < 0.05).