Table 5
Whole body amino acid composition of juvenile olive flounder fed with the different experimental diets for 6 weeks (percentage of DM basis)

Amino acids (AA)

Diets

Pooled SEM

EP1

EP2

MP

Essential (EAA)

 Methionine

1.64

1.50

1.37

0.05

 Leucine

5.07

4.84

4.82

0.05

 Isoleucine

3.38

2.90

2.98

0.11

 Arginine

4.37

4.39

4.01

0.06

 Histidine

1.87

1.78

1.90

0.04

 Lysine

5.56

5.19

5.25

0.06

 Phenylalanine

2.72a

2.64ab

2.54b

0.03

 Threonine

2.90a

2.82a

2.18b

0.09

 Valine

3.39

3.27

3.35

0.03

Non-essential (NEAA)

 Alanine

4.59

4.71

4.33

0.07

 Glycine

5.31

6.06

5.24

0.18

 Aspartate

7.25a

7.14a

6.27b

0.13

 Proline

3.44

3.69

3.33

0.07

 Serine

2.93a

2.87a

1.50b

0.20

 Glutamate

10.32

10.00

9.96

0.09

 Tyrosine

1.94a

1.83a

1.08b

0.12

 Cystine

1.29a

1.15ab

1.00b

0.04