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Dietary biotin requirement of fingerling Channa punctatus (Bloch)

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ABSTRACT

Dietary biotin requirement of fingerling Channa punctatus (4.52 ± 0.46 g) was estimated by conducting a 16-week growth trial. Fish were fed casein gelatin-based purified diets (450 g/kg crude protein, 18.39 kJ/g gross energy) with seven levels of dietary biotin (0, 0.04, 0.09, 0.47, 1.02, 1.43, and 1.96 mg/kg diet) to triplicate groups near to satiation. Significantly higher absolute weight gain (P = 0.0018), specific growth rate (P = 0.0027), protein gain (P = 0.0016), protein deposition (P = 0.0038), and lower feed conversion ratio (P = 0.0003) were shown in fish fed diet containing 0.47 mg/kg biotin, whereas liver biotin concentration showed a significant improvement (P = 0.0021) with increasing levels of dietary biotin up to 1.02 mg/kg. Broken-line analysis of absolute weight gain, protein gain, and liver biotin concentrations indicated that fingerling C. punctatus require biotin at 0.46, 0.44, and 0.97 mg/kg diet. Based on protein gain, optimum pyridoxine requirement for fingerling C. punctatus is recommended at 0.44 mg/kg diet.

Acknowledgments

The authors are thankful to the Chairman Department of Zoology, A. M. U., Aligarh, India for giving necessary laboratory facilities.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This work was supported by the University Grants Commission [UGC Women PDF (No. F.15-1/2014-15/PDFWM-2014-15-GE-UTT-28177)] to Dr. Seemab Zehra.

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