Non-additive dietary effects in juvenile slider turtles, Trachemys scripta

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part A, Molecular & Integrative Physiology
Sarah S BouchardJennifer A Berry

Abstract

Non-additive dietary effects occur when nutritional gains from a mixed diet are greater than or less than that predicted by summing the gains from individual diet items. Both positive and negative effects occur in adult slider turtles, Trachemys scripta. Such effects may also be important to juvenile T. scripta as they ontogenetically switch from carnivorous to herbivorous diets. The purpose of this study was to determine if juveniles experience non-additive effects and to assess the underlying mechanism. Two feeding trials were conducted. In Trial 1, juveniles were fed 100% duckweed, Lemna valdiviana, 100% grass shrimp, Palaemontes paludosus, or a mixed diet containing 81% duckweed and 19% shrimp. In Trial 2, juveniles were fed 100% duckweed, Lemna minor, 100% cricket, Acheta domesticus, or one of three mixed diets containing duckweed and cricket in varying percentages (22%, 39% and 66% cricket). Similar to adults, a negative non-additive effect was demonstrated on the 19% shrimp and 22% cricket diets. However, the positive effect found in adults was not observed. Intake varied dramatically between the plant and animal diets, resulting in differences in transit time that could explain the non-additive effect. These results off...Continue Reading

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Dec 29, 2005·Physiological and Biochemical Zoology : PBZ·Sarah S Bouchard, Karen A Bjorndal
Mar 1, 2006·Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part B, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology·Sarah S Bouchard, Karen A Bjorndal

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