Table 6. Amino acids profile of whole-body shrimp (% dry matter) fed different experimental diets for eight weeks

Amino acids	Diet1)		p-value
	FM20	FM10
Essential amino acids
Arginine (Arg)	4.31 ± 0.08	4.53 ± 0.04	0.0615
Histidine (His)	2.97 ± 0.01	3.04 ± 0.02	0.0540
Isoleucine (Ile)	2.51 ± 0.04	2.52 ± 0.02	0.8336
Leucine (Leu)	4.13 ± 0.04	4.18 ± 0.02	0.3331
Lysine (Lys)	3.89 ± 0.01	3.93 ± 0.02	0.1630
Methionine (Met)	1.03 ± 0.01	1.04 ± 0.01	0.4107
Phenylalanine (Phe)	2.66 ± 0.02	2.71 ± 0.02	0.1977
Threonine (Thr)	2.21 ± 0.03	2.13 ± 0.04	0.1679
Valine (Val)	2.88 ± 0.04	2.89 ± 0.02	0.7611
Non-essential amino acids
Alanine (Ala)	4.94 ± 0.03	4.87 ± 0.10	0.5701
Aspartic acid (Asp)	5.81 ± 0.05	5.94 ± 0.04	0.1161
Cysteine (Cys)	1.18 ± 0.01	1.21 ± 0.01	0.2836
Glutamic acid (Glu)	8.80 ± 0.04	8.97 ± 0.10	0.1662
Glycine (Gly)	4.27 ± 0.03b	4.61 ± 0.10a	0.0305
Proline (Pro)	2.88 ± 0.03a	2.70 ± 0.03b	0.0142
Serine (Ser)	2.22 ± 0.04	2.20 ± 0.02	0.7833
Tyrosine (Tyr)	1.90 ± 0.05	1.85 ± 0.06	0.6217
Total essential amino acids	26.6 ± 0.2	27.0 ± 0.2	0.2576
Total nonessential amino acids	32.0 ± 0.2	32.4 ± 0.4	0.4725
Total amino acids	56.4 ± 0.4	57.1 ± 0.6	0.3755

Values represent the means of triplicate groups of Pacific white shrimp where the values within each row with different superscript letters indicate statistically significant differences (mean ± SEM; p < 0.05).
Diets represent FM20: fishmeal contents of 200 g kg^–1, FM10: fishmeal contents of 100 g kg^–11.