The Effect of Feeding with Chironomid and Artemia on Fatty Acids and Amino Acids Profiles in Persian Sturgeon (Acipenser persicus) Larvae

Table 1

Fatty acids profile (%) of live foods used as feeds of the Persian sturgeon (A. persicus) larvae in the present experiment (mean ± SE; n = 3 replicates).

FA				Live food
				Chironomid	Artemia	Daphnia
SFA		Lauric acid	C12 : 0	0.31 ± 0.06^b	0.00 ± 0.00^b	6.63 ± 0.10^a
		Myristic acid	C14 : 0	5.32 ± 0.10^b	1.19 ± 0.10^c	7.44 ± 0.10^a
		Pentadecanoic acid	C15 : 0	1.95 ± 0.09^a	0.23 ± 0.10^b	0.00 ± 0.00^b
		Palmitic acid	C16 : 0	19.89 ± 0.19^a	15.63 ± 0.12^b	15.92 ± 0.10^b
		Heptadecanoic	C17 : 0	3.05 ± 0.06^a	2.37 ± 0.13^b	0.60 ± 0.09^c
		Stearic acid	C18 : 0	8.30 ± 0.13^c	7.52 ± 0.11^b	9.23 ± 0.09^a
		Arachidic acid	C20 : 0	1.08 ± 0.10^a	0.00 ± 0.00^b	0.00 ± 0.00^b
MUFA		Myristoleic acid	C14 : 1	4.85 ± 0.13^a	1.74 ± 0.10^b	0.00 ± 0.00^c
		Pentadecenoic acid	C15 : 1	1.07 ± 0.09^a	0.41 ± 0.08^b	0.00 ± 0.10^b
		Palmitoleic acid	C16 : 1	9.40 ± 0.17^a	4.59 ± 0.10^b	4.11 ± 0.10^b
		Heptadecenoic acid	C17 : 1	2.85 ± 0.10^a	2.30 ± 0.08^a	0.35 ± 0.10^b
		Oleic acid (ω9)	C18 : 1n9	18.48 ± 0.15^c	26.13 ± 0.10^b	32.37 ± 0.11^a
		Eicosenoic acid	C20 : 1	0.60 ± 0.11^b	2.13 ± 0.10^a	0.60 ± 0.11^b
		Docosenoic acid	C22 : 1	0.00 ± 0.00	0.23 ± 0.10	0.00 ± 0.00
PUFA	ω3	Linolenic acid	C18 : 3n3	3.34 ± 0.12^b	23.32 ± 0.12^a	2.79 ± 0.12^b
		Eicosatrienoic acid	C20 : 3n3	0.00 ± 0.00	0.21 ± 0.07	0.00 ± 0.00
		Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA)	C20 : 5n3	0.62 ± 0.11^b	0.37 ± 0.08^b	2.58 ± 0.12^a
		Docosapentaenoic acid	C22 : 5n3	0.00 ± 0.00	0 ± 0.00	0.30 ± 0.11
		Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)	C22 : 6n3	0.06 ± 0.01^b	0.04 ± 0.10^b	1.62 ± 0.12^a
	ω6	Linoleic acid	C18 : 2n6	17.17 ± 0.14^a	9.78 ± 0.10^c	12.98 ± 0.14^b
		γ-Linoleic acid	C18 : 3n6	0.68 ± 0.09^a	0.43 ± 0.09^ab	0.00 ± 0.00^b
		Octadecatrienoic acid	C20 : 3n6	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00
		Arachionic acid	C20 : 4n6	1.00 ± 0.09^b	1.04 ± 0.10^b	2.96 ± 0.11^a
		Adrenic acid	C22 : 4n6	0.00 ± 0.00	0.26 ± 0.13	0.00 ± 0.00
Total		SFA		39.9 ± 0.33^a	26.94 ± 0.11^b	39.82 ± 0.10^a
		MUFA		37.24 ± 0.01	37.53 ± 0.08	37.43 ± 0.21
		ω3		4.02 ± 0.23^c	23.94 ± 0.30^a	7.30 ± 0.26^b
		ω6		18.85 ± 0.32^a	11.51 ± 0.17^c	15.95 ± 0.03^b
		ω3 + ω6		22.87 ± 7.13^b	35.45 ± 0.13^a	23.24 ± 0.23^b
		DHA/EPA		0.09 ± 0.01^b	0.11 ± 0.02^b	0.61 ± 0.03^a
		DHA + EPA		0.68 ± 0.11^b	0.41 ± 0.10^b	4.26 ± 0.18^a
		n-3/n-6		0.21 ± 0.02^c	2.08 ± 0.06^a	0.46 ± 0.02^b

Dissimilar letters in each row indicate a significant difference among the treatments ().