differential effects of dietary lipids on growth performance, digestibility, fatty acid composition and histology of african catfish (heterobranchus longifilis) fingerlings微分膳食脂质对生长性能的影响,消化率、脂肪酸组成和组织学的非洲鲶鱼(heterobranchus longifilis)小鱼.pdfVIP

Food and Nutrition Sciences, 2011, 2, 11-21 11 doi:10.4236/fns.2011.21002 Published Online January 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/fns) Differential Effects of Dietary Lipids on Growth Performance, Digestibility, Fatty Acid Composition and Histology of African Catfish (Heterobranchus longifilis) Fingerlings 1 2 3 4 Theophilus Olayiwola Babalola , David Friday Apata , James Sunday Omotosho , Musibau Ayinde Adebayo 1 2 National Institute for Freshwater Fisheries Research, New-Bussa, Nigeria; Department of Animal Production, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria; 3Department of Zoology, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria; 4Department of Chemistry, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria. Email: tobabalola@ Received August 15th, 2010; revised September 29th, 2010; accepted October 30th, 2010. ABSTRACT The present study was performed to investigate the influence of fish oil (FO), two terrestrial animal fats (lard (PL) and poultry oil (CF)) and three vegetable oils (palm kernel (PKO), sheabutter (SBO) and sunflower (SFO)) as the dietary lipid sources on the growth performance, nutrient digestibility, fatty acid (FA) composition and histology of Hetero- branchus longifilis. Six isonitrogenous and isoenergetic diets containing 6% of added fat from the lipid sources were formulated and used. Each diet was fed to triplicate groups of 20 fish. The lipid source influenced (P 0.05) weight gain, specific growth rate, feed conversion ratio, hepatosomatic index and nutrient digestibility. Liver morphology of H. longifilis fed CF showed intense steatosis with hepatocytes containing numerous lipid vacuoles. However, fish fed PKO