Influence of Moult Cycles on Digestive Enzyme Activities during Early Larval Stages of Panulirus ornatus

Table 1

Total (mU larva⁻¹) activities of digestive enzymes in early larval stages (stages I–III) of Panulirus ornatus during the pre- and post-moult phases of the moult cycle. Activities presented as mean ± standard deviation; common superscripts denote means which are not statistically different (P ≥ 0.05) for a given enzyme based on Tukey’s range test.

Total activities	Stage I	Stage II		Stage III
	Pre-moult	Post-moult	Pre-moult	Post-moult
	5 days post-hatch	7 days post-hatch	11 days post-hatch	13 days post-hatch
α-Amylase	2476.7 ± 703.8^a	1255.1 ± 238.3^b	3492.0 ± 447.9^a	1144.9 ± 455.8^b
Non-specific esterase	197.1 ± 10.1^a	104.2 ± 9.2^b	339.7 ± 31.3^c	195.5 ± 17.5^a
Trypsin-like protease	138.5 ± 39.2^a	39.3 ± 15.6^bc	82.6 ± 15.7^b	32.2 ± 14.1^c

Activities as U larva⁻¹.