Caper Extract Supplementation Effects on Shrimp Growth, Immunity, and Disease Resistance

A three-month feeding experiment with 2100 juvenile shrimp evaluated the impact of caper plant extracts. The methanolic extract at 3.0% concentration significantly improved growth, immune parameters, and survival to 75% after a bacterial challenge. This dataset, authored by Hadeer Fathy Badran and last updated in June 2026, documents the biological activities of Capparis spinosa extracts on Litopenaeus vannamei.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between dietary phenolic content and shrimp growth performance based on extract concentration and type.
• Analyzing the correlation between antioxidant activity measurements (FRAP, DPPH) and immune gene expression (hemocyanin, penaeidin-3a).
• Predicting survival rates against Vibrio parahaemolyticus infection based on supplemented diet type and concentration.

Strengths

• Experimental design includes 21 tanks with three replicates per treatment, suggesting controlled conditions.
• Data includes quantitative results for 16 identified phenolic compounds and their concentrations in different extracts.
• Findings are supported by specific statistical significance (P < 0.05) for key outcomes like survival and growth.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale ML tasks.
• The 1.9 MB file size suggests a small dataset, potentially limiting the scope of analysis.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Data originates from a controlled laboratory feeding and challenge experiment.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 06:00:35; freshness should be verified.