Prediction model of tilapias and pacus nutritional requirements

• Grant number: 15/06093-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: June 01, 2015
• End date: August 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Animal Husbandry - Animal Nutrition and Feeding
• Principal Investigator: João Batista Kochenborger Fernandes
• Grantee: Thiago Matias Torres Do Nascimento
• Host Institution: Centro de Aquicultura (CAUNESP). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Jaboticabal. Jaboticabal , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 13/25761-4 - Modeling production and nutritional requirements of poultry and fish, AP.TEM

Abstract

Abstract: This plan aims to: (i) systematize and analyze the information available in the thematic project and in the literature to generate parameters and equations that will describe the nutrient partitioning for different components (deposition of protein, lipid and minerals); (ii) develop a prediction model of the requirements in energy and amino acids for tilapia and pacu. The parameters and equations will be estimated using data obtained from the experiments already conducted in the Aquaculture Center of UNESP and obtained in the thematic project. During the development of the model and validation four steps will be followed: (1) identify the variables of input (independent) and output (dependents), taking into account the objectives of each model (tilapia and pacu); (2) establishment of the structure of different mathematical relationships that will compose the model; (3) evaluation of the model. The information generated in this proposal are fundamental to implement and optimize the data generated to date by the thematic project and the available literature. As a product of this project is expected to develop a model to predict the nutritional requirements of tilapia and pacu in an electronic spreadsheet.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

DO NASCIMENTO, THIAGO M. T.; MANSANO, CLEBER F. M.; PERES, HELENA; RODRIGUES, FABIO H. F.; KHAN, KIFAYAT U.; ROMANELI, RAFAEL S.; SAKOMURA, NILVA K.; FERNANDES, JOAO B. K.. Determination of the optimum dietary essential amino acid profile for growing phase of Nile tilapia by deletion method. Aquaculture, v. 523, JUN 30 2020. (16/11016-3, 15/06093-6, 13/25761-4)