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Nutrition and Physiology of Fish and Shellfish
Feed Regulation, Metabolism, and Digestion
- 1st Edition - March 1, 2025
- Editor: Vikas Kumar
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 8 7 3 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 8 7 4 - 0
Nutrition and Physiology of Fish and Shellfish: Feed Regulation, Metabolism and Digestion is a solid reference on the most recent advances and fundamental subjects in nutrient… Read more
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Request a sales quoteNutrition and Physiology of Fish and Shellfish: Feed Regulation, Metabolism and Digestion is a solid reference on the most recent advances and fundamental subjects in nutrient metabolism, intestinal transport and physiology of taste in fish. The book covers the known nutrient requirements and deficiency effects for different fish, along with information on the digestion and metabolism of nutrients and energy. It discusses nutrient sources and preparation of practical and research feeds and provides directions for conducting fish nutrition and feeding experiments. Other sections address current topics of interest to researchers and nutritionists in aquaculture research and the feed and allied industry.
Nutrition and Physiology of Fish and Shellfish: Feed Regulation, Metabolism and Digestion is written by an international group of experts and contains fresh approaches of both classical and modern concepts of animal nutrition. All chapters clearly provide the essential literature related to the principles of fish nutrition and physiology that will be useful for academic researchers, those working professionally in aquaculture industries, and for graduate level students and researchers.
Presents the most recent advances in the field over the last decade
Includes all nutritionally balanced, environmentally sound, and cost-effective feed for finfish and crustaceans
Provides comprehensive coverage related to nutrition and metabolism of finfish and crustaceans, from fundamental nutritional concepts to digestive physiology and nutrient requirements
Researchers, owners and managers of hatcheries and fish farms, Professionals from all over the world in new technologies for hatchery and grow out of marine fish in the private and commercial sectors, R&D, Government, Corporate Markets
Section 1: Introductory remarks
1. Basic Concepts in Nutrition
2. Nutritional basis for fish and fish and crustaceans
3. Physiological and Biochemical basis of fish and crustaceans nutrition
Section 2: Chemistry of nutrients
4. Chemistry and sources of Protein and Amino Acids
5. Chemistry and sources of Lipids
6. Chemistry and sources of Carbohydrates
Section 3: Metabolism
7. Metabolism of protein and amino acids
8. Metabolism of lipids
9. Metabolism of carbohydrates
10. Bioenergetics
11. Nutrition and Metabolism of Vitamins
12. Nutrition and Metabolism of Minerals
Section 4: Digestive organs and functions
13. Digestive physiology of fish
14. Digestive physiology of prawns and shrimp
15. Digestive physiology of crayfish
16. Digestive physiology of crabs
17. The physiology of taste in fish and crustaceans
18. Regulation of Food Intake by fish and crustaceans
19. Gut health: Importance fish-gut microbe in fish nutrition
20. Ion transport and nitrogen excretion
Section 5: Nutrient requirements
21. Nutrients and energy requirements for fin fish
22. Nutrients and energy requirements for prawn and shrimp
23. Nutrients and energy requirements for crabs and crayfish
Section 6: Feed ingredients and feeding practices
24. Feed ingredients for aquafeed
25. Antinutritional factors and adventitious toxins
26. Additives in Aquafeed
27. Enzymes in aqua feed
28. Prebiotics in Finfish and Crustaceans
29. Probiotic in Finfish and Crustaceans
30. Methodologies and quality assessment of feed
31. Feed formulation and production technology
32. Feeding practices for fin fish
33. Feeding practices for crustaceans
Section 7: Nutritional deficiency diseases and aquatic environment
34. The Pathology of Nutritional disease
35. Impacts of feeding practices on aquatic environment
Section 8: Integrated sciences with nutrition
36. Nutrition and the Immune System
37. Nutrition and Reproduction
38. Nutrigenomics approaches in Fish Nutrition
39. Feed to food: current status and prospective
40. Aquafeed roles in global food security
- No. of pages: 620
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 1, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323908733
- eBook ISBN: 9780323908740
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Vikas Kumar
Vikas Kumar is an assistant professor of fish nutrition and nutrigenomics at the University of Idaho in the United States. He has more than a decade of research in aquaculture and nutritional biochemistry, fish nutrition, nutritional physiology, gut health, and feed processing, formulation, and nutrigenomics approaches to enhancing aquaculture production. He currently serves as an editorial board member of Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group) and as leading associate editor for the Animal Feed Science and Technology (Elsevier) and the Journal of the World Aquaculture Society (Wiley).
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor of Fish Nutrition and Nutrigenomics, University of Idaho, Idaho, USA