Insect meals in fish nutrition - Nogales‐Mérida - 2019 ...
Another important adaptation is the digestive tract systems of carnivorous and omnivorous fish; the gastrointestinal tracts (GIT) of many fish have chitinase to aid in insect consumption. Chitinase is an enzyme produced by gastric glands and the pancreas and is required to digest chitin from insects and crustaceans (Rangaswamy 2006).
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