High Levels of Vitamin A in Plant-Based Diets for Gilthead Seabream (Sparus aurata) Juveniles, Effects on Growth, Skeletal Anomalies, Bone Molecular Markers, and Histological Morphology

Table 3

Growth parameters of gilthead seabream fed increasing contents of vitamin A for 70 days.

Vitamin A IU/kg	24,000	26,000	27,000	31,000	37,000
Initial weight (g)	20.1 ± 0.1	20.4 ± 0.1	20.3 ± 0.2	20.3 ± 0.0	20.4 ± 0.4
WG	134.3 ± 4.9^ab	125.2 ± 5.4^a	138.4 ± 41.4^b	141.8 ± 11.8^b	146.7 ± 15.1^b
FE	0.91 ± 0.02	0.83 ± 0.07	0.73 ± 0.32	0.86 ± 0.05	0.86 ± 0.10
SGR	1.25 ± 0.03	1.19 ± 0.04	1.26 ± 0.27	1.30 ± 0.07	1.33 ± 0.09
FCR	1.10 ± 0.03	1.21 ± 0.11	1.65 ± 0.97	1.17 ± 0.07	1.17 ± 0.14

Different letters in the same row indicate significant differences, , n = 3. FCR, feed convertion ratio; FE, feed efficiency; SGR, specific growth rate; WG, weight gain.