Journal article
Fish oil replacement in current aquaculture feed: Is cholesterol a hidden treasure for fish nutrition?
F Norambuena, M Lewis, NKA Hamid, K Hermon, JA Donald, GM Turchini
Plos One | Published : 2013
Abstract
Teleost fish, as with all vertebrates, are capable of synthesizing cholesterol and as such have no dietary requirement for it. Thus, limited research has addressed the potential effects of dietary cholesterol in fish, even if fish meal and fish oil are increasingly replaced by vegetable alternatives in modern aquafeeds, resulting in progressively reduced dietary cholesterol content. The objective of this study was to determine if dietary cholesterol fortification in a vegetable oil-based diet can manifest any effects on growth and feed utilization performance in the salmonid fish, the rainbow trout. In addition, given a series of studies in mammals have shown that dietary cholesterol can dir..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This research was supported under the Australian Research Council's Discovery Projects funding scheme (Project DP1093570). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the Australian Research Council. The funding agency had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.