Aquatic Animal Nutrition : Organic Macro- and Micro-Nutrients / by Christian E.W. Steinberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steinberg, Christian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freshwater ecology.

Marine ecology.

Ecology.

Zoology.

Nutrition.

Freshwater and Marine Ecology.

Local Subjects:

Freshwater and Marine Ecology.

Ecology.

Zoology.

Nutrition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1082 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2022.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2022.

Summary:

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 se­veral gaps in nutritional research and practice. One major gap is the lack of com­mon 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, Aqua­tic 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 ge­ne­tic 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 in­crease public acceptance, nutritional optimization of farmed animals based on this mechanism, rather than genetical engineering, appears promising.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Protein Requirement

Chapter 3. Utilization of Proteinaceous Nutrients

Chapter 4. Peptides or Amino Acids?

Chapter 5. Amino Acid Functions and Requirements

Chapter 6. Simple Amino Acids: Gly, Ala, Asp, Gln

Chapter 7. The Versatile Amino Acid: Tryptophan

Chapter 8. A Bunch of Amino Acids: Phe, Tyr, Branched-Chain AAs, Ser, Thr

Chapter 9. Sulfur Amino Acids

Chapter 10. Basic Amino Acids and Prolines

Chapter 11. Taurine

Chapter 12. Nonprotein Amino Acids

Chapter 13. Glucose

Chapter 14. Glucose Homeostasis

Chapter 15. Glucose Intolerance

Chapter 16. Carbohydrate Transport

Chapter 17. Protein Sparing by Carbohydrates

Chapter 18. Carbohydrate Preference and Metabolism

Chapter 19. Regulatory Potential of Carbohydrates

Chapter 20. Oligosaccharides

Chapter 21. Starch

Chapter 22. Non-Starch-Polysaccharides & Fibers

Chapter 23. Lipids

Chapter 24. Lipid Homeostasis

Chapter 25. Protein Sparing by Lipids

Chapter 26. Fatty Acids

Chapter 27. Essential Fatty Acids

Chapter 28. Biosynthesis of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids

Chapter 29. PUFAs in Reproduction and Behavior

Chapter 30. Trophic Transfer of PUFAs

Chapter 31. Sterols, Phospholipids, Wax Esters

Chapter 32. Vitamin A

Chapter 33. Vitamin B

Chapter 34. Vitamin C

Chapter 35. Vitamin D

Chapter 36. Vitamin E

Chapter 37. Vitamin K

Chapter 38. Nucleotides

Chapter 39. Exogenous Enzymes

Chapter 40. Intraspecific Variability.

Other Format:

Print version: Steinberg, Christian E. W. Aquatic Animal Nutrition

ISBN:

9783030872274

OCLC:

1291319196