TITLE:
Differential Effects of Dietary Lipids on Growth Performance, Digestibility, Fatty Acid Composition and Histology of African Catfish (Heterobranchus longifilis) Fingerlings
AUTHORS:
Theophilus Olayiwola Babalola, David Friday Apata, James Sunday Omotosho, Musibau Ayinde Adebayo
KEYWORDS:
Growth Performance, Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids, Heterobranchus longifilis, Histology
JOURNAL NAME:
Food and Nutrition Sciences,
Vol.2 No.1,
January
24,
2011
ABSTRACT: The present study was performed to investigate the influence of fish oil (FO), two terrestrial animal fats (lard (PL) and poultry oil (CF)) and three vegetable oils (palm kernel (PKO), sheabutter (SBO) and sunflower (SFO)) as the dietary lipid sources on the growth performance, nutrient digestibility, fatty acid (FA) composition and histology of Hetero-branchus longifilis. Six isonitrogenous and isoenergetic diets containing 6% of added fat from the lipid sources were formulated and used. Each diet was fed to triplicate groups of 20 fish. The lipid source influenced (P