Long-term feeding with high plant protein based diets in gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata, L.) leads to changes in the inflammatory and immune related gene expression at intestinal level

Table 4 Growth and economic indices of seabream fed experimental diets at the end of the experiment

	FM	VM	VM+	SEM	p-value
Initial Weight (g)	131.2	127.2	129.6	4.1	0.9023
Final Weight (g)	393.1	360.4	384.6	13.2	0.2703
Specific Growth Rate (% / day)	0.72	0.69	0.73	0.03	0.6562
Feed Intake (g / 100 g fish · day)	1.35	1.38	1.33	0.02	0.2758
Feed Conversion Ratio	2.14	2.40	2.08	0.10	0.1536
Survival (%)	88.3^a	60.0^b	86.7^a	5.18	0.0141
Economic Conversion Rate (€ / kg fish)*	2.35^a	1.90^b	2.24^ab	0.10	0.0473
Economic Profit Index (€ / fish)*	1.36^a	0.99^b	1.33^a	0.07	0.0167

*Price of diets: VM = 0.79 €; FM = 1.09 €; VM+ = 1.05 €. Sale price of gilthead seabream = 5.37 € kg fish^− 1
Means of triplicate groups (n = 3). Data in the same row with different superscript letters differ at p < 0.05
Initial Weight (g); Final Weight (g); Specific Growth Rate (% day^− 1) = 100 •·ln (final weight (g)/ initial weight (g)) / days; Feed Intake (g 100 g fish^− 1 day^− 1) = 100 • feed consumption (g) / (average biomass (g)· days); Feed Conversion Ratio = feed offered (g) / weight gain (g); Survival (%) = 100 • (final number of fish / initial number of fish); Economic Conversion Rate (€ kg fish^− 1); Economical Profit Index (€)
SEM Standard error of the mean

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