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Aquatic Animal Nutrition - Organic Macro- and Micro-Nutrients (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Aquatic Animal Nutrition - Organic Macro- and Micro-Nutrients (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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As sequel to Aquatic Animal Nutrition - A Mechanistic Perspective
from Individuals to Generations, the present treatise on organic
macro- and micronutrients continues the unique cross fertilization
of aquatic ecology/ecophysiology and aquaculture. This treatise
considers proteins and their constituents, carbohydrates from mono-
to polysaccharides, fatty acids from free acids to fat, and waxes.
It becomes obvious that these organic nutrients are more than only
simple fuel for the metabolism of animals; rather, their
constituents have messenger and controlling function for the actual
consuming individual and even for succeeding generations. This
aspect will become particularly clear by putting the organisms
under consideration back into their ecosystem with their
interrelationships and interdependencies. Furthermore,
micronutrients, such as vitamins and nucleotides as well as
exogenous enzymes, are in the focus of this volume with known and
still-to-be-discovered controlling physiological and biomolecular
functions. Aquatic Animal Nutrition - Organic Macro and Micro
Nutrients addresses se veral gaps in nutritional research and
practice. One major gap is the lack of com mon research standards
and protocols for nutritional studies so that virtually
incomparable approaches have to be compared. This applies also to
the studied animals, since most approaches disregard intraspecific
variabilities and the existence of epimutations in farmed
individuals. Furthermore, recalling the Mechanistic Perspective
from Individuals to Generations, dietary benefits and deficiencies
have effects on succeeding generations. In most studies, this
long-term and sustainable aspect is overruled by pure short-term
production aspects. By comparing nutritional behavior and success
of fishes and invertebrates, Aqua tic Animal Nutrition points out
different metabolic pathways in these animal groups and discusses
how, for instance, fishes would benefit when having some successful
metabolic pathway of invertebrates. Application of novel ge ne tic
techniques will help turn this vision into reality. However, a
widely missing link in the current nutritional research is
epigenetics regarding transgenerational heritages of acquired
morphological and physiological properties. To in crease public
acceptance, nutritional optimization of farmed animals based on
this mechanism, rather than genetical engineering, appears
promising.
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