Trace minerals in fish nutrition

doi:10.1016/S0044-8486(96)01503-7

Aquaculture

Volume 151, Issues 1–4, 15 May 1997, Pages 185-207

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Abstract

The role of trace elements in biological systems has been described in several animals. However, the knowledge in fish is mainly limited to iron, copper, manganese, zinc and selenium as components of body fluids, cofactors in enzymatic reactions, structural units of non-enzymatic macromolecules, etc. Investigations in fish are comparatively complicated as both dietary intake and waterborne mineral uptake have to be considered in determining the mineral budgets. The importance of trace minerals as essential ingredients in diets, although in small quantities, is also evident in fish.

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