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Effects of feeding frequency and dietary protein/carbohydrate ratios on gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata) intestinal functionality and health
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The present study evaluated the effects of feeding frequency (FF) and dietary protein/carbohydrate (P/CH) ratios on intestinal histomorphology, microbiota profile, and digestive and oxidative stress-related enzyme activities of gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata). To this purpose, two practical diets were formulated: one with 50% P and 10% CH (P50/CH10) and other with 40% P and 20% CH (P40/CH20). Triplicate groups of fish with were fed these diets for 60 days until visual satiation at a FF of 1, 2, or 3 meals per day. Distal intestine histomorphology was not affected by diet composition or FF. However, the pyloric caeca (PC) of fish fed 1 meal per day presented more gut fold height alterations than the other groups, except in fish fed diet P50/CH10 3 meals per day, where no changes was observed. Fish fed diet P40/CH20 3 meals per day also presented higher PC submucosa cellularity than the other groups. Fish fed diet P40/CH20 presented a higher number of operational taxonomic units, microbial richness, and diversity indices than fish fed diet P50/CH10. Amylase was the only measured digestive enzyme affected by the experimental conditions, presenting higher activity in fish fed diet P50/CH10 once per day. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity was lower in fish fed 2 meals per day than only 1. While catalase activity was lower in fish fed 2 than 3 meals per day. Glutathione reductase activity was the only measured parameter affected both by dietary P/CH ratio and FF, being inferior in fish fed once per day the P50/CH10 diet than the P40/CH20 diet and, also in the P50/CH10 diet, to fish fed 1 than those fed 3 meals per day. Overall, no major interactions was observed between dietary P/CH ratio and FF; however, a P40/CH20 diet fed 2 meals per day might be recommended for gilthead seabream juveniles.
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BASTO-SILVA, Catarina, et al. Effects of feeding frequency and dietary protein/carbohydrate ratios on gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata) intestinal functionality and health. Aquaculture Nutrition. 2022. Vol. 2022, num. 8435786. ISSN 1353-5773. [consulted: 9 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/186316