Dietary folic acid requirement of juvenile abalone Haliotis discus hannai Ino

Effects of dietary folic acid on growth, antioxidant capacity, non-specific immune response and disease resistance of juvenile Chinese mitten crabEriocheir sinensis(Milne-Edwards, 1853)

“…Folic acid is a form of the water‐soluble vitamin B 9 and is important in amino acid and nucleotide metabolism (Shiau & Huang ; Miao et al . ), growth and health in most aquatic animals (Lin et al . ).…”

Dietary folic acid (FA) requirement of a genetically improved Nile tilapiaOreochromis niloticus(Linnaeus, 1758)

“…However, the lower weight gain rate in the un‐supplemented group demonstrated the importance of dietary FA, in agreement with the results in hybrid tilapia (Shiau & Huang, ), grass carp fingerling, Ctenopharyngodon idella (Zhao et al., ) and grouper (Lin et al., ). Based on the weight gain rate, the optimum amount of FA supplementation for GIFT was 0.4 mg/kg, which is similar to the requirement of young rainbow trout (0.3–0.6 mg/kg) but less than that reported for juvenile grouper (0.8 mg/kg), grass shrimp P. monodon (1.9–2.1 mg/kg; Shiau & Huang, ) and juvenile abalone Haliotis discus hannai Ino (2.62–5.29 mg/kg; Miao, Zhang, Xu, & Mai, ); these findings showed that dietary FA requirements differed among the different species. However, when tilapia was the research objective, our results revealed that the dietary FA requirement of GIFT was 0.4–0.7 mg/kg based on the weight gain rate and liver FA concentration, 0.82 mg/kg for hybrid tilapia based on weight gain rate (Shiau & Huang, ), 0.5–1.0 mg/kg for Nile tilapia based on growth response and hematology (Lim & Klesius, ), the results on dietary FA requirements of tilapia differed.…”

Effects of different levels of dietary folic acid on the growth performance, muscle composition, immune response and antioxidant capacity of freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii

“…Vitamins are considered as low molecular weight organic compounds that are required in small amounts for the maintenance of metabolism, normal growth and health of fish. Folic acid is a form of water-soluble vitamin B9, which is important in amino acid and nucleotide metabolism (Shiau and Huang, 2001b;Miao et al, 2013), growth and health of most aquatic animals (Lin et al, 2011;Sesay et al, 2016).…”