Evaluation of Krill Meal in Commercial Diets for Juvenile Swimming Crab (Portunus trituberculatus)

Table 2

The amino acid profile of the experimental diets (g/kg, dry matter).

Amino acids	Replacement levels of FM with KM
	0	10%	20%	30%
EAA^a
Thr	18.26	18.69	18.65	18.40
Val	21.66	21.90	21.54	21.00
Met	11.49	11.72	11.70	11.21
Ile	17.48	18.54	18.48	18.53
Leu	33.13	34.93	34.93	34.16
Phe	18.55	19.45	19.90	19.86
Lys	29.16	30.01	30.19	29.07
His	11.02	10.47	10.46	9.96
Arg	25.59	26.57	26.49	26.14
NEAA^b
Asp	37.51	38.07	38.15	37.74
Ser	18.17	18.46	18.50	18.08
Glu	67.37	67.16	67.13	66.14
Gly	17.69	18.27	18.19	19.84
Ala	19.57	21.72	21.44	20.71
Cys	7.24	6.59	5.98	6.16
Tyr	13.12	13.57	13.50	13.77
Pro	55.33	54.78	54.46	55.41
∑EAA	186.34	192.28	192.34	188.33
∑NEAA	236.00	238.62	237.36	237.83
TAA^c	422.34	430.89	429.70	426.16
∑EAA/TAA	0.44	0.45	0.45	0.44

^aEAA: essential amino acids; ^bNEAA: nonessential amino acids; ^cTAA: total amino acids.