Dietary Available Phosphorus Affected Growth Performance, Body Composition, and Hepatic Antioxidant Property of Juvenile Yellow Catfish Pelteobagrus fulvidraco

Table 2

Effects of dietary available P level on apparent digestibility coefficient (ADC), P utilization efficiency, and feces P content in yellow catfish fed experimental diets for eight weeks (Mean ± SE, 𝑛=3).

Available P in diet (%)	0.33	0.56	0.81	1.15	1.31	1.57
Dry matter (ADCd, %)	87.21±2.94	83.21±2.58	87.17±1.37	89.29±1.29	88.08±2.69	88.21±0.04
Protein (ADCp, %)	98.22±0.41	96.89±0.43	97.48±0.13	97.80±0.36	97.38±0.65	97.47±0.06
P (ADCph, %)	87.01±3.40^b	89.43±1.26^bc	90.47±0.67^abc	94.18±0.50^a	92.57±1.59^ac	92.06±0.20^ac
Efficiency of P utilization (%)	77.46±7.45^a	57.99±5.37^ab	54.45±3.81^b	46.38±7.43^b	37.51±3.41^b	45.18±10.30^b
Feces P (g kg^−1 dry matter)	0.38±0.01^d	0.40±0.02^d	0.67±0.03^c	0.67±0.03^c	0.89±0.01^b	1.15±0.03^a

Note: values with different letters within the same row are significantly different (𝑃<0.05).