Research Article
Amino Acid Metabolism in Gilthead Seabream Is Affected by the Dietary Protein to Energy Ratios
Table 2
Amino acid composition of experimental diets.
| Amino acids (mg AA g-1 as fed) | LowP/E | HighP/E |
| Arginine | 45.1 | 42.7 | Histidine | 12.8 | 12.0 | Lysine | 43.0 | 41.1 | Threonine | 21.7 | 20.5 | Isoleucine | 24.1 | 23.2 | Leucine | 41.4 | 39.7 | Valine | 24.2 | 23.2 | Methionine | 13.0 | 12.2 | Phenylalanine | 27.7 | 26.7 | Cystine | 3.1 | 3.0 | Tyrosine | 23.1 | 22.0 | Aspartic acid + asparagine | 54.6 | 52.4 | Glutamic acid + glutamine | 104.5 | 100.0 | Alanine | 26.3 | 24.9 | Glycine | 29.0 | 28.0 | Proline | 32.2 | 30.6 | Serine | 26.4 | 25.2 |
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All values are reported as mean of duplicate analysis.
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