About the Authors

Lisa Kolden Midtbø

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa Kolden Midtbø, Mohammad Madani Ibrahim

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research, Bergen, Norway

Mohammad Madani Ibrahim

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa Kolden Midtbø, Mohammad Madani Ibrahim

Affiliations National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research, Bergen, Norway, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, NorwayStavanger, Norway

Lene Secher Myrmel

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research, Bergen, Norway

Ulrike Liisberg Aune

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research, Bergen, Norway

Anita Røyneberg Alvheim

Affiliation National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research, Bergen, Norway

Nina S. Liland

Affiliation National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research, Bergen, Norway

Bente E. Torstensen

Affiliation National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research, Bergen, Norway

Grethe Rosenlund
Bjørn Liaset

Affiliation National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research, Bergen, Norway

Trond Brattelid

Affiliation National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research, Bergen, Norway

Karsten Kristiansen

lise.madsen@nifes.no (LM); kk@bio.ku.dk (KK)

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Lise Madsen

lise.madsen@nifes.no (LM); kk@bio.ku.dk (KK)

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research, Bergen, Norway

Competing Interests

Grete Rosenlund is funded by Skretting Aquaculture Research Centre (ARC). Skretting ARC’s role was to produce the salmon for the feeding trial with a fatty acid composition tailored according to the study design. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LM BET KK. Performed the experiments: LKM MMI LSM ULA ARA NSL BET BL TB KK LM GR. Analyzed the data: LKM MMI LSM ULA ARA NSL BET BL TB KK LM. Wrote the paper: LKM MMI KK LM.