Main Objectives

Alternative feedstuffs & nutraceutics

Aquafeed improvement

Immune status

Feed wastereduction

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Nutrient requirements & utilization

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Stress & Diseases

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Well established marine aquaculture fish (seabass, seabream, turbot and sole)

Main research species

Potential marine aquaculture fish (Diplodus sp., meagre)

MetabolismImmunology

Methodological approach

• Digestibility• Digestive enzymes activity• Histomorphology• Microbiota

• Hematology • Humoral parameters • Cell mediated immunity• Gene expression: endocrine

and immune response

• Blood biochemistry• Intermediary metabolism• Oxidative status

• Enzymes activity • Gene expression

• Growth• Feed utilization• Nutrient retention• Body composition

Fish Performance Functional Gut

Diet

Analytical tools

Analitical tools

Chemical analysis

Enzymatic analysis

Biochemical analysis

Cell culture

Hystology

Gene expression

Micro-biology

Estação de Zoologia Marítima

(Foz do Douro)

Faculdade de Ciências

CIIMAR

Growth Trials

Challenge Trials

Digestibility Trials

• Photobacterium damselae subsp. piscicida

• Edwardsiella tarda• Tenacibaculum maritimum

Bacterial pathogens