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Relation between lipid and fatty acid composition of eggs and larval survival in white pacific shrimp (Penaeus vannamei, Boone, 1931)

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In this study, lipid classes and fatty acid composition were determinedin eggs of P. vannamei as a function of survival to zoeaIII stage. Spawns were reared individually to zoea III and grouped, accordingtotheir final survival to this larval stage, into spawns of high and lowsurvival.Eggs of individual spawns were analyzed for lipid and fatty acid composition ofneutral and polar lipids and the results were then grouped according tosurvivalto zoea III. The lipids within each group (high and low survival to zoea III)were pooled for the separation of phospholipids and the analysis of their fattyacid composition.Higher levels of triglycerides, carotenoids, and linoleic (18:2n-6) acid ineggs were associated with improved survival to zoea III. Linoleic acid washigher in spawns from the high survival group in both neutral and polarfractions and in most of the phospholipid classes analyzed. Docosahexanoic acid(DHA) was not related to survival to zoea, probably because its content washighenough (> 15% of total fatty acids) to satisfy embryo and early larvaldevelopment needs. A high content of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) was found inphosphatidylethanolamine, lysophosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylserine, andphosphatidylinositol compared to other phospholipid classes, suggesting aspecific role of EPA in these lipids. These results describe the specificphospholipid composition of penaeid eggs and could (potentially) be used aspredictive indicators of larval quality for research and production purposes.

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  1. Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, A.P. 128, La Paz, México

    Elena Palacios & Ilie S. Racotta

  2. CONICET-UNLP, Fac. Medicina, Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de la Plata (INBIOLP), 60 y 120, 1900, La Plata, Argentina

    Horacio Heras

  3. UMR CNRS 6521, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, BP 809, 29285, Brest, France

    Yanic Marty

  4. Laboratoire de physiologies des mollusques, IFREMER, Centre de Brest, BP 70, 29280, Plouzané, France

    Jeanne Moal & Jean-François Samain

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Palacios, E., Racotta, I.S., Heras, H. et al. Relation between lipid and fatty acid composition of eggs and larval survival in white pacific shrimp (Penaeus vannamei, Boone, 1931). Aquaculture International 9, 531–543 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020589924810

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