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Controlled experiment Direct Neocaridina evidence

Effect of diets on carotenoid content, body coloration, biochemical composition and spermatophore quality

Tomas et al., 2020. Aquaculture Nutrition 26: 1198-1210.

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Source taxon as published
Neocaridina davidi
Environment
Laboratory diet comparison
Life stages
adult male, adult female
Reviewed
2026-08-12

What was studied

Study shape: Defined diets were compared for biochemical, pigmentation and male reproductive outcomes.

Experimental unit: Diet treatment culture unit

Endpoints: carotenoids, visible colour, biochemical composition, spermatophore quality.

Claim boundary

What it can support: Diet can change measured phenotype and biochemical outcomes under a defined protocol.

What it cannot support: Visible colour change is not inherited grade, genetic purity or proof that one diet is complete for every life stage.

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  • genetics decision card Tank-side decision card
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  • Visible colour can change without proving inherited identity Curated evidence comparison
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  • A diet result is specific to its formulation and endpoint Curated evidence comparison
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How this record is classified

Controlled experiment: An assigned treatment or controlled comparison. The treatment, unit, duration and endpoint still limit the claim.

Direct Neocaridina evidence: The source measured animals named within Neocaridina. Direct still does not mean universal or sufficient.

Topics: Feeding, Colour, Breeding

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  1. Identity and provenance: How were the organism, population, stock and life stage identified and sourced? A published name or seller label can hide a taxonomic, population or life-stage transfer.
  2. Independent unit: What unit was independently assigned or sampled, and how many units support each comparison? Animal counts do not create independent replication when animals share a vessel, site, family or treatment history.
  3. Comparison and context: What was the actual comparator, allocation process, environment, duration and material condition? A result has meaning only against the comparison and conditions that produced it.
  4. Endpoint and measurement: Which endpoint was measured, with what method, unit, timing, resolution and decision rule? One endpoint cannot silently become survival, welfare, diagnosis, reproduction or long-term population performance.
  5. Denominators and missingness: Are starting counts, exclusions, losses, missing observations and analysis denominators reconciled? Unreported or changing denominators can alter the apparent direction, precision and applicability of a result.
  6. Transfer boundary: What is the nearest tempting aquarium claim that this source design cannot establish? Direct evidence can still be narrow, and adjacent evidence can be useful only while the inference remains visible.
  7. Treatment assignment: Were independent units assigned to treatments, and were baseline conditions comparable? Unclear allocation or baseline imbalance can confound the treatment comparison.
  8. Replication: Were treatment vessels or other exposure units independently replicated rather than subsampled? Repeated animals or assays inside one exposure unit do not replicate the environmental treatment.
  9. Exposure verification: Was the treatment, dose, feed intake or environmental exposure measured and maintained as described? Nominal treatment labels may not equal the exposure animals actually received.
  10. Analysis: Did the statistical model match the unit, repeated measures, multiplicity and missing outcomes? A precise p-value cannot repair a mismatched unit or unaccounted comparison structure.

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