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Effects of diet on fatty acid composition of body zones in larvae of the sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax: a chemometric study

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Larvae of the sea bass Dicentrachus labrax were fed four Artemia sp. diets for 28 d. Three were nauplii enriched with emulsions of polyunsaturated fatty acids, and the fourth nauplii enriched with baker's yeast. At the end of the experimental period, the fatty acids of the bodies, heads and eyes of the larvae were analysed. A multivariate statistical method (discriminant analysis, DA) applied to the data revealed anatomical as well as dietary fatty acid pattern-discrimination. We propose here the use of discriminant analysis as a pattern-recognition method that will help to integrate the fatty acid information obtained in nutritional studies.

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  1. Instituto de Acuicultura de Torre de la Sal, (CSIC), E-12595, Ribera de Cabanes, Castellón, Spain

    J. C. Navarro & F. Amat

  2. NERC Unit of Aquatic Biochemistry, School of Natural Sciences, The University of Stirling, FK9 4LA, Stirling, Scotland

    L. A. McEvoy & J. R. Sargent

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Navarro, J.C., McEvoy, L.A., Amat, F. et al. Effects of diet on fatty acid composition of body zones in larvae of the sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax: a chemometric study. Marine Biology 124, 177–183 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00347121

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