
Nutrition and Physiology of Fish and Shellfish
Feed Regulation, Metabolism and Digestion
Description
Key Features
- Presents the most recent advances in the field over the past decade
- Includes all nutritionally balanced, environmentally sound and cost-effective feeds for finfish and crustaceans
- Provides comprehensive coverage related to the nutrition and metabolism of finfish and crustaceans
- Includes fundamental nutritional concepts, digestive physiology and nutrient requirements
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Table of Contents
Section 1: Introductory remarks
1. Basic Concepts in Nutrition
2. Nutritional basis for fish and fish and crustaceans
3. Physiological and Biochemical basis of fish and crustaceans nutritionSection 2: Chemistry of nutrients
4. Chemistry and sources of Protein and Amino Acids
5. Chemistry and sources of Lipids
6. Chemistry and sources of CarbohydratesSection 3: Metabolism
7. Metabolism of protein and amino acids
8. Metabolism of lipids
9. Metabolism of carbohydrates
10. Bioenergetics
11. Nutrition and Metabolism of Vitamins
12. Nutrition and Metabolism of MineralsSection 4: Digestive organs and functions
13. Digestive physiology of fish
14. Digestive physiology of prawns and shrimp
15. Digestive physiology of crayfish
16. Digestive physiology of crabs
17. The physiology of taste in fish and crustaceans
18. Regulation of Food Intake by fish and crustaceans
19. Gut health: Importance fish-gut microbe in fish nutrition
20. Ion transport and nitrogen excretionSection 5: Nutrient requirements
21. Nutrients and energy requirements for fin fish
22. Nutrients and energy requirements for prawn and shrimp
23. Nutrients and energy requirements for crabs and crayfishSection 6: Feed ingredients and feeding practices
24. Feed ingredients for aquafeed
25. Antinutritional factors and adventitious toxins
26. Additives in Aquafeed
27. Enzymes in aqua feed
28. Prebiotics in Finfish and Crustaceans
29. Probiotic in Finfish and Crustaceans
30. Methodologies and quality assessment of feed
31. Feed formulation and production technology
32. Feeding practices for fin fish
33. Feeding practices for crustaceansSection 7: Nutritional deficiency diseases and aquatic environment
34. The Pathology of Nutritional disease
35. Impacts of feeding practices on aquatic environmentSection 8: Integrated sciences with nutrition
36. Nutrition and the Immune System
37. Nutrition and Reproduction
38. Nutrigenomics approaches in Fish Nutrition
39. Feed to food: current status and prospective
40. Aquafeed roles in global food security
Product details
- No. of pages: 620
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2023
- Published: February 1, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780323908733
About the Editor
Vikas Kumar
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