“…It is therefore concluded that the three strains possess significant differences at growth rate, fecundity and nutritive composition. Up to now, studies on the rice field eel have been mainly focused on molecular mechanisms of sex reverse (Cai et al., 2017; Gao, Dan, Hu, & Li, 2016; He et al., 2014; Sheng et al., 2015), population genetics (Cai et al., 2008; Li, Sun, Fan, & Zhang, 2013; Liang, Guo, Li, Luo, & Zou, 2016), disease (Liu et al., 2019; Shao, Yuan, Shen, Hu, & Gu, 2016; Xia et al., 2019) and immune genes (Gao et al., 2019; Tang et al., 2019; Xu et al., 2016). Limited information of molecular mechanism, however, was available on the differences at growth rate, fecundity and nutritive composition among the three strains with different body colours.…”