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Aqua Feeds: Formulation & Beyond Volume 2, Issue 1, 2005
Title:	Nutrition, Development and Morphogenesis in Fish Larvae: Some recent Developments
Section:	pages 3 - 5
Author 1:	Dr. José Zambonino Email:Jose.Luis.Zambonino@ifremer.fr
Author 2:	Dr. Chantal Cahu
Author 3:	Laure Villeneuve
Author 4:	Enric Gisbert
Address:	UMR 1067 Nutrition, Aquaculture and Genomics of fish IFREMER, BP 70 29280 Brest France

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Nutrients interact with molecular pathways that dictate the normal development of fish larvae. Understanding these interactions is important in developing diets that lower the incidence of morphological deformities in hatchery-produced larvae. Recent findings from their laboratory that link nutrition to skeletal deformities in European seabass larvae include:

1. Fish protein hydrolysate in the diet improves survival and lower malformation rate in seabass larvae.
2. High levels of phospholipids (supplied in the form of soy lecithin) improves the success of first feeding in seabass larvae.
3. High level of dietary vitamin A disrupts bone formation process in seabass larvae and leads to deformities.

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