Article

Impact of dietary carbohydrate/protein ratio on hepatic metabolism in land-locked Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.)

Alternative title Dietary carbohydrate in land-locked salmon

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Betancor M, Olsen RE, Marandel L, Skulstad OF, Madaro A, Tocher DR & Panserat S (2018) Impact of dietary carbohydrate/protein ratio on hepatic metabolism in land-locked Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) [Dietary carbohydrate in land-locked salmon]. Frontiers in Physiology, 9, Art. No.: 1751. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2018.01751

Abstract
A common-garden experiment was carried out to compare two genetically distinct strains of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) fed diets with either high (CHO) or low (NoCHO) digestible carbohydrate (starch). Twenty salmon from either a commercial farmed strain (F) or a land-locked population (G) were placed in two tanks (10 fish of each population in each tank) and fed either CHO or NoCHO feeds. At the end of the experiment fish were fasted for 8 h, euthanized and blood and liver collected. Both diet and population had an effect on circulating glucose levels with G showing hypoglycaemia and dietary starch increasing this parameter. In contrast, G showed increased plasma triacylglycerol levels regardless of dietary treatment suggesting faster conversion of glucose to triacylglycerol. This different ability to metabolise dietary starch among strains was also reflected at a molecular (gene) level as most of the metabolic pathways evaluated were mainly affected by the factor population rather than by diet. The data are promising and suggest different regulatory capacities towards starch utilization between land-locked salmon and the farmed stock. Further analyses are necessary in order to fully characterise the capacity of land-locked salmon to utilise dietary carbohydrate.

Keywords
Salmon Populations; Dietary carbohydrate; transcriptomic; glucose metabolism; Land-locked;

Journal
Frontiers in Physiology: Volume 9

StatusPublished
Publication date06/12/2018
Publication date online06/12/2018
Date accepted by journal20/11/2018
URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/28335
eISSN1664-042X

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Dr Monica Betancor

Dr Monica Betancor

Associate Professor, Institute of Aquaculture