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The Assimilation of Nutrients from Compounded Diets by the Prawns Palaemon Serratus and Pandalus Platyceros

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

J. R. M. Forster  and
P. A. Gabbott
J. R. M. Forster
Affiliation:
MAFF Fisheries Experiment Station, Conway, N. Wales and Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge, N. Wales
P. A. Gabbott
Affiliation:
NERC Research Unit, Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge, N. Wales
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Assimilation efficiency (percentage of nutrients absorbed) from diets compounded from dry food meals was investigated using the prawns Palaemon serratus Pennant and Pandalus platyceros Brandt. An indirect ratio method using chromic oxide (Cr2O3) as an inert reference material in the diet was employed, but the method was complicated by the prawns' habit of regurgitating part of the indigestible food remains after a meal. Thus quantitative collection of both faeces and the regurgitated, unassimilated food fraction was necessary.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 51 , Issue 4 , November 1971 , pp. 943 - 961
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1971

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