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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 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.
List of contents
Section I: Introductory remarks1. History of Fish Nutrition
Section II: Chemistry of nutrients2. Chemistry and sources of protein
3. Chemistry and sources of Lipids
4. Chemistry and sources of Carbohydrates
Section III: Feed regulation5. Regulation of food intake in teleost fish
6. Gustatory System and Implications for Feeding in Fish
Section IV: Metabolism7. Protein homeostasis
8. Metabolism of protein: metabolic transformation of dietary amino acids in fishes and shrimp
9. Lipid metabolism in fish and shellfish
10. Metabolism of carbohydrates
11. Nutrition and Metabolism of Vitamins
12. Minerals
13. Bioenergetics
Section V: Muscle Physiology14. Nutritional regulation of myogenesis and muscle physiology
Section VI: Digestive organs and functions15. Fish digestive physiology
16. Digestive anatomy and physiology of shrimp
17. Feeding, digestion and nutrition of marine bivalve suspension-feeders - a synopsis
18. Nutrition and digestive physiology of Echinozoa
19. Nutrition and digestive physiology of lobsters and crabs
About the author
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).
