Influence of Dietary Phosphorus on the Growth, Feed Utilization, Proximate Composition, Intestinal Enzymes, and Oxidation Resistance of Sea Cucumber Apostichopus japonicus

Table 2

Growth performance of A. japonicus fed experimental diets with different phosphorus levels.

	Dietary phosphorus level (%)						Pooled SE
	0.24	0.37	0.51	0.62	0.77	0.89
IW^1 (g)							0.018
FW^2 (g)	^a	^b	^c	^c	^b	^b	0.408
WG^3 (g)	^a	^b	^d	^d	^c	^bc	0.408
SGR^4 (%/d)	^a	^b	^d	^d	^c	^bc	0.031
SR^5 (%)							1.094

Notes: values in the same row with different superscript letters show significant difference (). ¹Initial weight (IW, g); ²final weight (FW, g); ³weight gain (WG, g); ⁴specific growth rate (SGR, %/d); ⁵survival rate (SR, %).