Diets Supplemented with a Mixture of Fermented Cotton Meal and Fermented Rapeseed Meal Improved the Growth and Antioxidant Capacity of Juvenile Eriocheir sinensis

The insufficient of fish meal has been become a prominent problem with the development of the aquaculture industry. Therefore, it is great significance that replacement fish meal using other protein sources for the sustainable development of aquaculture industry. In this study, fermented cottonseed meal (FCM) and fermented rapeseed meal (FRM) were used to replace fish meal in Chinese mitten crab. The ratio of FCM and FRM were set according to 1:2, 1:1, and 2:1, and were supplemented into 25% fish meal (FM-25) and 15% fish meal (FM-15) diets, respectively, to formulated 6 kinds of experimental diets. The feeding duration was 8 weeks. The results showed that the weight gain (WG) and specific growth rate (SGR) of crabs fed the diets containing 25% fish meal were significantly higher than crabs fed 15% fish meal diets. At 25% fish meal level, the WG and SGR of crabs fed the diet with 1FCM:1FRM were significantly higher than those fed the 1FCM:2FRM and 2FCM:1FRM diets. At 25% fish meal level, the crude lipid (CL) content of crabs fed the diet with 1FCM:2FRM were significantly higher than those fed the 2FCM:1FRM and 1FCM:1FRM. At 25% fish meal level, the activities of glutathione peroxidase (GPX) and peroxidase (POD) of crabs fed the diet with 1FCM:2FRM were significantly higher than those fed the 2FCM:1FRM and 1FCM:1FRM. At 25% fish meal level, the relative expression of peroxiredoxin (PRX) of crabs fed the diet with 1FCM:1FRM were significantly higher than those fed the 2FCM:1FRM and 1FCM:2FRM. In summary, diets supplemented with a mixture of fermented cotton meal and fermented rapeseed meal (1:1) can significantly improve the growth and antioxidant capacity of Chinese mitten crab.

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Subject: Biology and Life Sciences - Aquatic Science

1. Introduction

The production of aquafeed is increasing with the rapid development of aquaculture, which caused the shortage of high-quality protein sources. In the aquaculture feed industry, fish meal is recognized as the highest quality protein source for aquatic animals [1]. Unfortunately, the price of fish meal is becoming higher and higher due to the production of fish meal is limited [2]. The development of plant protein sources that can replace fish meal is of great importance for the sustainable development of aquaculture [3,4]. However, plant protein sources cannot completely replace fish meal due to the amino acid imbalance [5]. It is an effective way to improve the fish meal replacement ratio by mixing several plant protein sources together to complement amino acids profile.

Cottonseed protein is a potential plant protein source in aquaculture due to its large yield, low price and relatively stable supply. But the antinutritional factors such as gossypol limited quality and use level in aquaculture. Fortunately, fermentation can effectively reduce or eliminate anti-nutritional factors and improve the palatability and digestibility of cottonseed meal. Studies have reported that fermentation not only increased the crude protein content of cottonseed meal, but also increased the essential amino acids such as lysine, methionine and threonine [6,7,8]. In fish, fermented cottonseed meal can partially replace fish meal. It has been reported that fermented cottonseed meal can replace 16% fish meal in the black sea bream [9]. The proportion of substitutions also varies between species. Fermented cottonseed meal can replace 25% fish meal in the Trachinotus ovatus [10]. In crustaceans, the percentage of fish meal substituted by fermented cottonseed meal was higher than fish. It has been reported that fermented cottonseed meal can replace 30% fish meal in the Litopenaeus vannamei [11]. In summary, fermented cottonseed meal is a potential plant protein source to partially replacing fish meal.

Rapeseed meal is also a common plant protein source. However, due to its low digestion and antinutritional factors, its use in aquafeed is limited [12,13]. After fermentation, the degradation rate of these anti-nutritional factors could be decreased more than 85% [14,15]. Some studies have reported that fermented rapeseed meal can successfully replace 56.25% of fish meal without negative effects on the growth, nutrient utilization, innate immune response and oxidative stress of juvenile fish [16]. In crustaceans, 64.4 g/kg fermented rapeseed meal did not negatively affect the growth and survival of L. vannamei [17]. In summary, fermented rapeseed meal can partially replace fish meal in aquaculture.

The Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis) is an economic crustacean that has been widely farmed. The development of low fish meal diet is a hot topic in this species. In our previous study, we have found that he optimum amount of fermented cotton meal was 24% in Chinese mitten crab [18]. It is a distinct characteristic that arginine content was higher in fermented cotton meal [19]. While, lysine and methionine are abundant in fermented rapeseed meal. The combination of these two protein sources can form a good amino acid complementation. Unfortunately, the suitable mixing proportion is still unknown. Therefore, this study mixed fermented cotton meal and fermented rapeseed meal according to different proportions (2:1, 1:1, 1:2), and investigated the effects of fish meal replacement with a mixture of fermented cotton meal and fermented rapeseed meal on the growth performance, and antioxidant capacity of juvenile Chinese mitten crab, thereby to increase the proportion of substitute fish meal on the basis of the previous single substitution.

2. Materials and Methods

2.1. Experimental Diets

The ratio of fermented cotton meal (FCM) and fermented rapeseed meal (FRM) were set according to 1:2, 1:1, and 2:1, and were supplemented into 25% fish meal (FM-25) and 15% fish meal (FM-15) diets, respectively to formulated 6 kinds of experimental diets. The formulation and proximate composition of the experimental diets are shown in Table 1. The amino acid composition of experimental diets is shown in Table 2.

The fish meal, cottonseed meal, soybean meal, FCM and FRM were finely ground. Where after, these ingredients were sieved through a 60-mesh strainer. Then the ingredients were weighed and mixed according to the formula. The distilled water were added after repeated mixing to make a dough. The dough was pelleted using a screw-press pelletizer. The pellets were dried in a dryer at 45 °C. Finally, diets were stored at -20 °C for using.

2.2. Feeding Trial, Sampling and Growth Evaluation

Juvenile crabs were obtained from a local farm. Crabs were acclimatized to the experimental conditions in 300 L tanks (100 × 80 × 60 cm) before the feeding trial. The plastic nets were put into tanks as shelters to reduce attacking behavior. When experiment began, a total of 720 crabs (0.38 ±0.01 g) were randomly distribute into 24 tanks (100 × 80 × 60 cm) and each treatment was 4 parallel tanks. Each tank containing 30 crabs. Diets with a daily ration of 4% body weight were hand-fed to crabs twice daily (8:00 and 18:00). Feces were removed after feeding (09:00). Meanwhile, the 30% tank volume of water was exchanged. During the feeding trial, the water temperature varied from 25 °C to 28 °C, the ammonia nitrogen was lower than 0.05 mg/L, the dissolved oxygen concentration was under 7 mg/L.

After 56 d feeding trial, crabs were euthanized, five crabs were sampled randomly from each tank for proximate nutrient composition. Following, six crabs were sampled randomly and the hepatopancreases were frozen in liquid nitrogen and kept at ultra-low temperature freezer for enzyme activity and gene expression analyses.

Weight gain, specific growth rate and hepatopancreas index were calculated using the formulas as below:

Weight gain (WG, %) = (final crab weight - initial crab weight) / initial crab weight × 100

Specific growth rate (SGR, %) = 100 × (LN final crab weight - LN initial crab weight) / days

Hepatopancreas index (HSI, %) = hepatopancreas weight /whole crab weight × 100

2.3. Chemical Composition Analysis

The proximate nutrient compositions of diets and crabs were measured according to the procedures described in the AOAC [20]. Firstly, moisture was measured using an oven (105 °C, 8 h). Subsequently, the experimental diets and crabs were crushed for crude protein (kjeldah method), crude lipid (Soxhlet extraction) and Ash (Muffle furnace) analyses.

2.4. Analysis of Biochemical Parameters in the Hepatopancreas

The antioxidant parameters in the hepatopancreas were measured using the commercial assay kits (Nanjing Jiancheng Bioengineering Institute, Nanjing, China). The kits used in this study were as follows: superoxide dismutase (SOD; Cat. No. A001-1), glutathione peroxidase (GPX; Cat. No. A005-1-2), glutathione s-transferase (GST; Cat. No. A004-1-1), peroxidase (POD; Cat. No. A084-3-1), malondialdehyde (MDA; Cat. No. A003-1-2). Total protein (TP; Cat. No. A045-2-2).

2.5. Analysis of Amino Acid Composition

The feed samples were digested with 6 N HCl for 24 h under 110 °C, and then use the nitrogen removal. Samples were redissolved in 0.1 N HCl loading buffer and filtered through 0.22 μm polyether sulfone ultrafiltration. The amino acid compositions of feed were determined using a Hitachi L-8900 amino acid analyzer, Japan.

2.6. Analysis of Gene Expression

Total RNA was extracted using the RNAiso Plus (CAT # 9109, Takara, Japan). Where after, the reverse transcription was performed using a PrimeScript™ RT master mix reagent kit (Takara, Japan). The specific primers were designed using NCBI Primer BLAST (Table 3). The RT-PCR amplification reactions were performed using CFX96 Real-Time PCR system (Bio-rad, Richmond, CA). PCR conditions were set according to the commercial kits (Takara, Japan). The relative gene expression levels were calculated by geometric averaging of multiple internal control genes [21].

2.7. Statistical Analysis

Statistical analysis was performed using the SPSS 26.0 for Windows (SPSS, Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL, USA). Two-way ANOVA was used to determine if there was any interaction between fish meal level and FCM:FRM ratio. At the same fish meal condition, one-way ANOVA was used to analyze the significant differences among crabs fed the diets with different FCM:FRM ratio. At the same FCM:FRM ratio, independent-samples T test was used to determine significant differences between crabs fed with different fish meal levels. Significance was set at P < 0.05.

3. Results

3.1. Growth Performance

There were significant main effects of dietary fish meal levels on the weight gain (WG) and specific growth rate (SGR) (P < 0.05). the WG and SGR of crabs fed the diets containing 25% fish meal were significantly higher than crabs fed 15% fish meal diets (P < 0.05). At 25% fish meal level, the WG and SGR of crabs fed the diet with 1FCM:1FRM were significantly higher than those fed the 1FCM:2FRM and 2FCM:1FRM diets (P < 0.05). At 15% fish meal level, the ratio of FCM:FRM did not significantly affect the WG and SGR (P > 0.05). At 25% fish meal level, the hepatopancreas index (HSI) of crabs fed the diet with 1FCM:1FRM were significantly higher than those fed the 2FCM:1FRM (P < 0.05). Meanwhile, the HSI of crabs fed the diet with 1FCM:2FRM were significantly higher than those fed the 2FCM:1FRM and 1FCM:1FRM diets (P < 0.05). At 15% fish meal level, the HSI of crabs fed the diet with 1FCM:1FRM were significantly higher than those fed the 1FCM:2FRM and 2FCM:1FRM diets (P < 0.05).

Figure 1. Effects of fish meal replacement with a mixture of fermented cotton meal and fermented rapeseed meal on the growth performance of juvenile Chinese mitten crab. The asterisk (*) indicates that there are significant differences among different protein level groups with the same amount of glutamate, the same below.

3.2. Proximate Composition

At 25% fish meal level, the crude protein (CP) content of crabs fed the diet with 1FCM:1FRM were significantly higher than those fed the 2FCM:1FRM and 1FCM:2FRM (P < 0.05). At 15% fish meal level, the CP content of crabs fed the diet with 2FCM:1FRM were significantly higher than those fed the 1FCM:1FRM (P < 0.05). At 25% fish meal level, the crude lipid (CL) content of crabs fed the diet with 1FCM:2FRM were significantly higher than those fed the 2FCM:1FRM and 1FCM:1FRM (P < 0.05). At 15% fish meal level, the CL content of crabs fed the diet with 2FCM:1FRM were significantly higher than those fed the 1FCM:1FRM and 1FCM:2FRM (P < 0.05). At both 25% and 15% fish meal levels, the Ash content of crabs fed the diet with 2FCM:1FRM were significantly lower than those fed the 1FCM:1FRM and 1FCM:2FRM (P < 0.05).

Table 4. Effects of fish meal replacement with a mixture of fermented cotton meal and fermented rapeseed meal on the proximate composition of juvenile Chinese mitten crab.

Diets	Crude protein	Crude lipid	Ash
(FM25) 2FCM:1FRM	40.52±0.35^a	8.81±0.59^a	38.97±0.83^a
(FM25) 1FCM:1FRM	41.1±0.14^b	9.17±0.54^a	40.11±0.76^b
(FM25) 1FCM:2FRM	40.84±0.28^a	10.03±0.82^b	40.75±0.58^b
(FM15) 2FCM:1FRM	42.25±0.22^b	9.41±1.09^b	38.67±0.79^a
(FM15) 1FCM:1FRM	40.18±0.85^a	6.58±1.15^a	42.18±1.23^b
(FM15) 1FCM:2FRM	41.38±1.07^ab	7.39±0.51^a	41.49±0.2^b
Two-way ANOVA
Fish meal level	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01
FCM/FRM ratio	0.502	<0.01	<0.01
Fish meal*FCM/FRM	0.289	0.027	<0.05

3.3. The Activities of Enzymes Related to Antioxidant Capacity

At 25% fish meal level, the activities of glutathione peroxidase (GPX) and peroxidase (POD) of crabs fed the diet with 1FCM:2FRM were significantly higher than those fed the 2FCM:1FRM and 1FCM:1FRM (P < 0.05). At 15% fish meal level, the GPX and POD of crabs fed the diet with 2FCM:1FRM were significantly higher than those fed the 1FCM:2FRM (P < 0.05). Dietary FCM/FRM ratio did not significantly affect the activities of catalase of Chinese mitten crab (P > 0.05). At both 25% and 15% fish meal levels, the activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD) and malondialdehyde (MDA) content of crabs fed the diet with 2FCM:1FRM were significantly higher than those fed the 1FCM:1FRM and 1FCM:2FRM (P < 0.05). There was significant main effect of dietary fish meal levels on the MDA (P < 0.05). the MDA content of crabs fed the diets containing 25% fish meal were significantly lower than crabs fed 15% fish meal diets (P < 0.05).

Figure 2. Effects of fish meal replacement with a mixture of fermented cotton meal and fermented rapeseed meal on the activities of enzymes related to antioxidant capacity of juvenile Chinese mitten crab.

3.4. The Relative Expressions of Genes Related to Antioxidant Capacity

At 25% fish meal level, the relative expression of peroxiredoxin (PRX) of crabs fed the diet with 1FCM:1FRM were significantly higher than those fed the 2FCM:1FRM and 1FCM:2FRM (P < 0.05). At 15% fish meal level, dietary FCM/FRM ratio did not significantly affect the relative expression of PRX of Chinese mitten crab (P > 0.05). At 15% fish meal level, the relative expression of glutathione peroxidase (GPX) and catalase (CAT) of crabs fed the diet with 2FCM:1FRM were significantly higher than those fed the 1FCM:2FRM (P < 0.05). At both 25% and 15% fish meal levels, dietary FCM/FRM ratio did not significantly affect the relative expression of glutathione S-transferase (GST) of Chinese mitten crab (P > 0.05).

Figure 3. Effects of fish meal replacement with a mixture of fermented cotton meal and fermented rapeseed meal on the relative expressions of genes related to antioxidant capacity of juvenile Chinese mitten crab. Peroxiredoxin, PRX; Glutathione Peroxidase, GPX; Catalase, CAT; Glutathione S-transferase, GST.

4. Discussion

A lot of previous studies reported, fermented plant protein sources can partially replace fish meal [22,23,24,25]. In the present study, dietary supplemented with a mixture of fermented cotton meal and fermented rapeseed meal according to the ratio of 1:1 significantly improved the growth performance of juvenile Chinese mitten crab fed with 25% fish meal diet. This result indicate that fermented plant protein sources can promote the growth of aquatic animals. Some similar results were also reported in the L. vannamei and Procambarus clarkia [26,27]. However, in the low fish meal condition (15%), the proportion of fermented cotton meal and fermented rapeseed meal did not affect the growth performance of juvenile crabs, which might be due to the low fish meal diets disturbed the normal growth of crab, thereby, the fermented plant protein sources could not improve the growth under unhealthy conditions. The hepatopancreas is an important organ for nutrient storage, detoxification and metabolism in Chinese mitten crab [28,29,30,31]. In the present study, dietary supplemented with a mixture of fermented cotton meal and fermented rapeseed meal according to the ratio of 1:1 significantly improved the hepatopancreas index of juvenile Chinese mitten crab fed with 25% or 15% fish meal diets, which showed that proper mixed ratio of fermented cottonseed meal and fermented rapeseed meal can improve the hepatopancreas nutrient accumulation in Chinese mitten crab. We speculate that this may be one of the reasons for the fermentation plant protein to promote growth performance of Chinese mitten crab.

Animal growth is closely related to the accumulation of nutrients from the view of nutrient metabolism. Some studies reported that fermented plant proteins affected animal growth by affecting body nutrient composition. For example, the crude lipid content decreased with the increasing fermented cotton meal levels, which in turn affecting the growth of L. vannamei [32]. The similar result was also found in the present study. It was observed that the low proportion of fermented cottonseed meal significantly reduced the lipid content of crabs fed the 25% fish meal diets. On the other hand, a study reported that high fermented rapeseed meal reduced the lipid content of L. vannamei [33]. Therefore, we speculated that the increasing lipid level of crabs in the present study was also related to variation of fermented rapeseed meal. These results were highly consistent with the hepatopancreas, which is the major lipid storage site of crabs. However, the opposite results were found in crabs fed the low fish meal (25%) diets. It is difficult to explain the reason for the abnormal lipid changes under the low fish meal diets based on the available scientific reports. A further study is needed to figure out the possible reasons. In the present study, Dietary fermented plant protein source did not significantly change the protein content of crabs. These results are consistent with the previous studies. In summary, the mixture ratio of fermented cotton meal and fermented rapeseed meal affected growth performance maybe through influencing the lipid content, not protein, in the Chinese mitten crab.

The growth performance of an animal is closely related to its health status and antioxidant capacity is an important indicator of health status [34]. Superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT) are important components of the antioxidant system [35,36]. SOD converts oxygen free radicals into hydrogen peroxide, following CAT and peroxidase (POD) decompose hydrogen peroxide into water, thereby these enzymes play a role in protecting organism from oxidative damage [37]. In the present study, malondialdehyde (MDA) content of crabs fed the diet with 1FCM:1FRM and 1FCM:2FRM were significantly higher than those fed the 2FCM:1FRM diet, which indicated an appropriate proportion of FCM: FRM can reduced oxidative stress. However, the mixed ratios of 1FCM:1FRM and 1FCM:2FRM did not significantly increase the activities of SOD and CAT of crabs. These results suggest that fermented plant protein sources may not reduce oxidative stress through the SOD-CAT system. Glutathione peroxidase also plays an important role in the antioxidant system [37]. A study reported that fermented cottonseed meal significantly increased the GSH content of L. vannamei [38]. In the present study, the mixed ratio of 1FCM:2FRM significantly increased the activity of glutathione peroxidase (GPX), which indicated that it may be one of the ways in which fermented plant protein sources improve the antioxidant capacity of Chinese mitten crab. Besides, peroxiredoxin (PRX) can effectively regulate the level of ROS and play an antioxidant role in animals [39,40]. Previous studies have found that the relative expression of Prx6 were significantly up-regulated in the case of oxidative stress, resulting in a strong ability of scavenging free radicals [41]. In the present study, the relative expression of PRX of crabs fed the diet with 1FCM:1FRM were significantly higher than the other group under 25% fish meal condition. This result indicated that it may be another way in which fermented plant protein sources improve the antioxidant capacity of Chinese mitten crab. In summary, the mixture of fermented cotton meal and fermented rapeseed meal can improve the antioxidant capacity of Chinese mitten crab by up-regulating the PRX expression and increasing the GPX activity.

5. Conclusions

At 25% fish meal level, diets supplemented with a mixture of fermented cotton meal and fermented rapeseed meal (1:1) can significantly improve the growth of Chinese mitten crab by increasing the body lipid content, the relative expression of PRX and the activity of GPX.

Author Contributions

Yisong He, writing – original draft and editing; Jiajun Zheng, investigation and writing—review and editing. He Lv, resources and software. Li Jia, investigation. Yang Xu, writing—review and editing. Yue Tan, writing—review and editing. Gengwu Gou, resources. Changle Qi, supervision. Jinyun Ye, supervision.

Informed Consent Statement

Not applicable.

Data Availability Statement

Data are contained within the article.

Acknowledgments

This research was supported by grants from the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. LTGN23C190003 and the Huzhou Natural Science Foundation (2021YZ14).

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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Table 1. Composition and nutrient levels of experimental diets (air-dry basis).

Ingredients	FM-25			FM-15
Ingredients	2FCM:1FLM	1FCM:1FLM	1FCM:2FLM	2FCM:1FLM	1FCM:1FLM	1FCM:2FLM
Fish meal	25.00	25.00	25.00	15.00	15.00	15.00
Cottonseed meal	10.00	10.00	10.00	10.00	10.00	10.00
Soybean meal	16.00	16.00	16.00	16.00	16.00	16.00
Fermented cottonseed meal	12.00	9.60	6.80	20.40	16.20	11.50
Fermented soybean meal	6.00	9.60	13.60	10.20	16.20	23.00
α-starch	19.90	18.70	17.50	16.10	14.30	12.20
Fish oil	2.10	2.10	2.10	2.50	2.50	2.50
Soybean oil	2.10	2.10	2.10	2.50	2.50	2.50
Lecithin	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Cholesterol	0.50	0.50	0.50	0.50	0.50	0.50
Choline chloride	0.50	0.50	0.50	0.50	0.50	0.50
Lysine	0.30	0.30	0.30	0.60	0.60	0.60
Methionine	0.50	0.50	0.50	0.60	0.60	0.60
Vitamin premix^a	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Mineral premix^b	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
CMC	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00
Butylated hydroxytoluene	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.10
Proximate analysis
Dry matter	93.02	92.84	92.65	92.46	92.18	91.86
Crude protein	42.44	42.50	42.31	43.48	43.29	43.38
Crude lipid	6.49	7.48	8.64	7.53	8.99	9.00

^a Vitamin premix (per 100 g premix): Ca pantothenate, 0.3 g; para-aminobenzoic acid, 0.1 g; cholecalciferol, 0.0075 g; riboflavin, 0.0625 g; menadione, 0.05 g; ascorbic acid, 0.5 g; biotin, 0.005 g; retinol acetate, 0.043 g; folic acid, 0.025 g; pyridoxine hydrochloride, 0.225 g; thiamin hydrochloride, 0.15 g; niacin, 0.3 g; α-tocopherol acetate, 0.5 g; The remaining part will be used α-cellulose to 100 g. ^b Mineral premix (per 100 g premix): KI, 0.023 g; CuCl₂·2H₂O, 0.015 g; Ca(H₂PO₄)₂, 26.5 g; MnSO₄·6H₂O, 0.143 g; AlCl₃·6H₂O, 0.024 g; KH₂PO₄, 21.5 g; NaH₂PO₄, 10.0 g; CoCl₂·6H₂O, 0.14 g; KCl, 2.8 g; ZnSO₄·7H₂O, 0.476 g; Calcium lactate, 16.50 g; CaCO₃, 10.5 g; MgSO₄·7H₂O, 10.0 g; Fe-citrate, 1 g; The remaining part will be used α-cellulose to 100 g.

Table 2. The amino acid composition of experimental diets.

Amino acids	FM25			FM15
Amino acids	2FCM:1FRM	1FCM:1FRM	1FCM:2FRM	2FCM:1FRM	1FCM:1FRM	1FCM:2FRM
Asp	8.75±0.08	8.9±0.25	8.06±0.17	9±0.36	9.32±0.14	8.86±0.07
Thr	1.48±0	1.54±0.04	1.41±0.03	1.47±0.06	1.58±0.03	1.56±0.01
Ser	1.54±0.02	1.55±0.06	1.41±0.03	1.58±0.06	1.64±0.07	1.61±0.01
Glu	6.19±0.04	6.36±0.19	5.81±0.12	6.88±0.28	7.12±0.2	7.01±0.04
Gly	5.98±0.06	6.21±0.18	5.77±0.11	5.88±0.23	6.26±0.06	6.17±0.06
Ala	1.74±0.02	1.79±0.05	1.64±0.03	1.66±0.06	1.78±0.02	1.75±0.01
Cys	0.47±0.03	0.49±0.02	0.46±0.01	0.46±0.02	0.52±0.02	0.48±0.02
Val	1.95±0.03	2.02±0.05	1.86±0.04	2.04±0.09	2.16±0.02	2.12±0.02
Met	1±0.04	1.05±0.02	0.98±0.01	0.96±0.04	1.02±0.01	1±0.03
Ile	1.53±0.03	1.6±0.04	1.48±0.04	1.57±0.07	1.67±0.01	1.64±0.01
Leu	2.79±0.04	2.92±0.09	2.69±0.06	2.85±0.12	3.02±0.04	2.98±0.02
Tyr	1.14±0.01	1.17±0.03	1.06±0.03	1.17±0.04	1.24±0.02	1.2±0.02
Phe	2.01±0.03	2.05±0.07	1.84±0.05	2.2±0.1	2.28±0.02	2.17±0.02
Lys	2.12±0.04	2.18±0.07	2±0.05	2.18±0.1	2.22±0.02	2.18±0.01
Pro	4.63±0.01	4.65±0.1	4.38±0.05	4.85±0.13	5.15±0.11	5.18±0.01
His	1.33±0.02	1.38±0.04	1.28±0.03	1.36±0.05	1.41±0.02	1.37±0.01
Arg	3.51±0.01	3.53±0.11	3.1±0.08	3.95±0.15	3.92±0.08	3.6±0.03

Table 3. Sequences of primers.

Gene	Position	Primer sequence （5′ – 3′）	Accession number
Peroxiredoxin	Forward	CATGGGGATAGCACTCGGTC	MK467460.1
Peroxiredoxin	Reverse	TTATGCAGCTTGACCTGGGG	MK467460.1
Glutathione Peroxidase	Forward	TTGCTGACCAAGATCGGGAC	FJ617305.1
Glutathione Peroxidase	Reverse	GAGTCGATCACACGCAGGAT	FJ617305.1
Glutathione S-transferase	Forward	TTCGTTCCCAGCCAGACATC	FJ610337.1
Glutathione S-transferase	Reverse	AGGAACTCCGGCTTCATGTG	FJ610337.1
Catalase	Forward	CCCGTGGGCAAGATAACACT	GU361618.1
Catalase	Reverse	ACAAGGTTGGCAGGGGAAAA	GU361618.1
GAPDH	Forward	CACCGTGCATGCTGTTACTG	HM053701.1
GAPDH	Reverse	ACCAGTGGAGGATGGGATGA	HM053701.1
β-actin	Forward	TGGGTATGGAATCCGTTGGC	KM244725.1
β-actin	Reverse	AGACAGAACGTTGTTGGCGA	KM244725.1

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