Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Table 3 Non-specific immune responses of juvenile whiteleg shrimp fed with 7 experimental diets for 7 weeks

From: Effects of three different dietary plant protein sources as fishmeal replacers in juvenile whiteleg shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei

	Diets							Pooled SEM³
	CON	SB₂₀	SB₄₀	ST₂₀	ST₄₀	SM₂₀	SM₄₀	Pooled SEM³
Lys¹	1.62^ab	1.62^ab	1.54^b	1.70^a	1.63^ab	1.61^ab	1.55^b	0.02
SOD²	87.1^a	84.4^ab	81.8^b	87.7^a	87.2^a	84.9^ab	81.7^b	0.95

Values are means from triplicate groups of fish (n = 3) where in each row with different superscripts values are significantly different (P < 0.05)
¹Lysozyme (U/l)
²Superoxide dismutase (% inhibition)
³Pooled standard error of mean = SD/√n

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