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 5

Vertebra gene expression analyses of gilthead seabream fed increasing levels of dietary vitamin A for 70 days.

Vitamin A (IU/kg)	24,000	27,000	37,000	p Value
runx2	1.01 ± 0.15	1.36 ± 0.20	1.33 ± 0.21	0.113q
bmp2	1.00 ± 0.07	1.24 ± 1.81	0.51 ± 0.39	0.469l
alp	1.01 ± 0.19	1.09 ± 0.17	1.29 ± 0.23	0.097l
oc	1.13 ± 0.68	0.62 ± 0.45	0.97 ± 0.30	0.49q

Different letters in the same row indicate if the data adjusted to a linear (l) or quadratic (q) model. Nevertheless, none of the parameters studied presented statistically significant values.