Comparative Study on Growth Index and Nutritional Quality of Female Chinese Mitten Crab Eriocheir sinensis Selected at Different Growth Periods in Rice-Crab Culture Systems

Table 3

Approximate composition of female E. sinensis in rice-crab coculture system at different developmental periods (% fresh weight).

Tissue	Group
	D0	D15	D31	D46	D62
Muscle
Moisture	^a	^a	^a	^a	^a
Crude protein	^b	^ab	^ab	^ab	^a
Crude lipids	^a	^a	^a	^a	^a
Crude ash	^a	^a	^a	1^a	^a
Hepatopancreas
Moisture	^bc	^d	^cd	^ab	^a
Crude protein	^a	^a	^b	^c	^c
Crude lipids	^b	^a	^a	^ab	^ab
Crude ash	^a	^a	^a	^a	^a
Ovary
Moisture	—	—	^a	^b	^b
Crude protein	—	—	^b	^a	^a
Crude lipids	—	—	^b	^a	^a
Crude ash	—	—	0^a	^a	^a

Note: the data are represented as the deviation (). Values in the same row with different letters are significantly different (). “-” represents no data for this group.