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Lipid and fatty acid content in cultivated live feed organisms compared to marine copepods

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The total lipid content in Artemia franciscana (21–23% ofdry weight (DW)) when enriched with either Super Selco or DHA Selco wastwice as high as in the adult copepods Temora longicornis and Eurytemora sp.(9–11% of DW). In Brachionus plicatilis the total lipid contentwas 11 and 6.6% for cultures growing at high and low growth rate,0.12 d−1 and 0.38 d−1, respectively. In thecopepodid stages I, II and III of Calanus finmarchicus the total lipid levelwas 12–13%, increasing to 24% in copepodid stage IV, Vand the adults. In T. longicornis and Eurytemora sp. the predominant fattyacids were DHA (22:6n-3), EPA (20:5n-3) and the saturated fatty acid 16:0,which constituted 40–45%, 21–24% and8–12% of total fatty acids, respectively. C. finmarchicuscontained the same dominant fatty acids. In both the cultivated live feedorganisms DHA, EPA and 18:1 were the predominant fatty acids. In A.franciscana the content of these fatty acids varied according to theenrichment medium and in B. plicatilis according to the growth rate.

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  1. Center of Aquaculture, SINTEF, Applied Chemistry, N-7034, Trondheim, Norway

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Evjemo, J.O., Olsen, Y. Lipid and fatty acid content in cultivated live feed organisms compared to marine copepods. Hydrobiologia 358, 159–162 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1003196829109

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