Exogenous Fatty Acids Remodel the Muscle Fatty Acids Composition of the GIFT Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)

Table 4

Growth performance and survival of GIFT tilapia fed diets with different oil sources for 105 days.

Items	Dietary oil sources
	FO	CO	LO	AO	LA12	LA11	LA21
Initial weight	0.21 ± 0.01	0.21 ± 0.01	0.21 ± 0.01	0.21 ± 0.01	0.21 ± 0.01	0.21 ± 0.01	0.21 ± 0.01
Final weight	11.78 ± 0.27^c	10.49 ± 0.15^a	11.76 ± 0.05^c	10.30 ± 0.09^a	10.69 ± 0.15^a	10.41 ± 0.14^a	11.13 ± 0.05^b
WG (%)	5,643.90 ± 133.98^c	5,015.85 ± 72.53^a	5,639.02 ± 24.99^c	4,923.17 ± 45.12^a	5,115.85 ± 36.90^a	4,975.61 ± 33.59^a	5,328.05 ± 25.53^b
SGR (%/d)	3.86 ± 0.02^d	3.75 ± 0.01^ab	3.86 ± 0.01^d	3.73 ± 0.02^a	3.77 ± 0.01^b	3.74 ± 0.01^ab	3.80 ± 0.01^c
Survival (%)	100	100	100	100	100	100	100

Data are expressed as mean ± SE (n ≥ 8). Mean values with different superscript letters differ significantly (a–g, ).