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... The host response to virus infection is mediated by the interferon system and its workhorse effector proteins like Interferon-stimulated genes (ISGs). Viperin is an interferon-inducible antiviral protein. In the present study, an antiviral radical SAM enzyme, viperin homologue, was cloned and characterised from teleost, Asian seabass (Lates calcarifer). This cloned viperin cDNA encodes 351 amino a ...
... Cathepsins, as a class of protein hydrolases, are widely found in the lysosomes of many tissues and play an essential role in various physiological activities. Cathepsin C (CTSC), a lysosomal cysteine protease, is an essential component of the lysosomal hydrolase family. In this study, we identified a CTSC from Trachinotus ovatus (TroCTSC) and analyzed its function. TroCTSC contained an ORF of 136 ...
... Ciguatoxins (CTXs) are marine toxins produced by microalgae of the genera Gambierdiscus and Fukuyoa, which are transferred through the food webs, reaching humans and causing a poisoning known as ciguatera. The cell-based assay (CBA) is commonly used for their detection because of its high sensitivity and the provided toxicological information. However, matrix effects may interfere in the CBA. In t ...
... Seriola species are an important target fish for the aquaculture industry, and innovative techniques for their rearing have been developed in recent years. In Experiment 1 of this work, the growth of S. dumerili larvae (with and without a swim bladder) and diurnal changes in relative swim bladder volume were compared to elucidate the significance of swim bladder inflation success in larvae. Additi ...
Seriola dumerili; air drying; body weight; digestible protein; digestion; feed conversion; feed intake; fish; fish meal; growth performance; potato protein; potato protein concentrate; specific growth rate
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... Potato protein concentrate (PPC) is a potential fish meal (FM) substitute. We replaced FM in greater amberjack diets with low-temperature air-dried PPC (LT-PPC) and high-temperature rotary-dried PPC (HT-PPC) to investigate their effects on growth and feed utilization. Four experimental and one control diet was prepared. The control diet comprised FM, wherein the experimental diets were prepared by ...
Seriola dumerili; adults; fish; fisheries; geographical distribution; habitats; monsoon season; oceanography; oocytes; satellites; topography; water temperature; winter; East China Sea; Taiwan
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... Greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili) is an important fishery resource with a circumglobal distribution from tropical to temperate waters. Here, we investigated the spawning migration and habitat utilization of S. dumerili in the East China Sea (ECS). Archival tags were attached to 22 adult fish to examine their horizontal and vertical movements and estimate the spawning ground. S. dumerili were ca ...
... Salinity significantly affects physiological and metabolic activities, breeding, development, survival, and growth of marine fish. The greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili) is a fast-growing species that has immensely contributed to global aquaculture diversification. However, the tolerance, adaptation, and molecular responses of greater amberjack to salinity are unclear. This study reared greater ...
David Aciole Barbosa; Bruno C. Araújo; Giovana Souza Branco; Alexandre S. Simeone; Alexandre W. S. Hilsdorf; Daniela L. Jabes; Luiz R. Nunes; Renata G. Moreira; Fabiano B. Menegidio
... Cobia (Rachycentron canadum) is a marine teleost species with great productive potential worldwide. However, the genomic information currently available for this species in public databases is limited. Such lack of information hinders gene expression assessments that might bring forward novel insights into the physiology, ecology, evolution, and genetics of this potential aquaculture species. In t ...
Seriola dumerili; fish; geographical distribution; habitats; linear models; summer; surface water temperature; East China Sea; Taiwan
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... The environmental characteristics of the Taiwan Strait (TS) have been linked to variations in the abundance and distribution of greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili) populations. Greater amberjack is a commercially and ecologically valuable species in ecosystems, and its spatial distribution patterns are pivotal to fisheries management and conservation. However, the relationship between the catch r ...
... Offshore petroleum platforms provide habitat utilized by an array of reef fish that are valuable to both commercial and recreational fishers. However, thousands of offshore platforms have been decommissioned in the Gulf of Mexico over the past decade, with many of the removals being accomplished using explosive severance methods. Here, we estimate the impact of platform removal in the Gulf of Mexi ...
... Nrf2 is an important component of Nrf2-ARE signaling pathway. However, information about Nrf2 in golden pompano (Trachinotus ovatus) is quiet limited. Thus, the full length of Nrf2 was cloned from T. ovatus in this study. The full-length cDNA sequence was 2376 bp in length and comprised of a 1848 bp ORF preceded by 123 bp 5′UTR, and followed by a 405 bp UTR. The putative amino acid sequence of the ...
... The golden pompano, Trachinotus ovatus, is a promising species in the mariculture. However, the sex identification in alive individual is a bottleneck step in selective breeding. The golden pompano and the greater amberjack, Seriola dumerili, belong to the same family, Carangidae. The genome assembly of golden pompano has been released and the sex determining mechanism in the greater amberjack has ...
... The selenium (Se)-containing imidazole compound selenoneine (2-selenyl-Nα, Nα, Nα-trimethyl-L-histidine) is a strong scavenger of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the blood and tissues of fish. Intravenous injection of selenoneine into yellowtail has been shown to delay changes in meat color and prevent met-myoglobin formation in red muscle. In this study, to determine whether selenoneine can impr ...
Bacillus amyloliquefaciens; Bacillus pumilus; Enterococcus faecalis; Lactobacillus plantarum; Seriola dumerili; allometry; aquaculture; body composition; body weight; condition factor; docosahexaenoic acid; eicosapentaenoic acid; feed conversion; fish; fish feeds; fish health; juveniles; probiotics
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... This study presents the effect of integrating single strain (Bacillus amyloliquefaciens (BA)) and mix strain (Streptococcus faecalis (SF), Lactobacillus plantarum (LP) and Bacillus mesentericus (BM)) probiotic bacteria on growth, physiologycal condition and body composition of juvenile Amberjack (initial average body weight 5.61 ± 0.11 g). Three experimental diets were formulated, the basal diet C ...
... The study investigates feeding habits of thermophilic species and species with subtropical affinity in the fishing catch in the Bay of Medulin (northeastern Adriatic Sea), and contributes to the knowledge about their presence in recently extended distributional range. In our methodology, the presence of the Seriola dumerili, Sphyraena sphyraena, Lichia amia, Coryphaena hippurus, Caranx crysos, Pom ...
... This is the first report on the effective utilization of the deep sea for improving food quality. Long-term aged fish has recently received substantial attention because of improved taste quality and the sustainable utilization of fishery resources. However, problems such as the refrigeration energy and space limitations for aging remain. Therefore, effects of deep-sea aging at a 2034 m depth for ...
... Microplastics (MPs) are characterized by their high persistence in marine ecosystems, and due to their small size, they can be easily ingested by very diverse organisms. Although the presence of MPs in wild fish is well documented, there is still limited information on their potential to induce adverse effects. Pelagic fish species, because of their wide distribution, are considered good bioindica ...
... Galectins are a family of lectins that bind β-galactoside sugars through their conserved carbohydrate-recognition domains (CRDs) and play integral roles in the innate immune systems of vertebrates and invertebrates. Accumulating amounts of evidence have shown that galectin-related protein (GRP) plays a crucial role in fish immunity. In this study, the GRP cDNA with a 546 bp open reading frame from ...
... Galectin-8 gene belongs to the agglutinin family, which can specifically recognize β-galactoside bonds and play essential roles in many biological processes. In this study, we researched the sequence characteristics and immune-related function of Galectin-8 gene in Japanese flounder Paralichthys olivaceus, named PoGalectin-8. The results showed that the open reading frame of PoGalectin-8 was 891 b ...
... We report new records of the fisheries‐harvested subtropical greater amberjack Seriola dumerili for the south‐east Pacific Ocean. Despite local fishers' asserting that three Seriola morphotypes exist in the region, only one species (the yellowtail amberjack Seriola lalandi) was previously scientifically recorded for Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island). Whilst we present the first “scientific re ...
... Matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-9 belongs to the zinc-dependent endopeptidase family, which is associated with important inflammatory processes and plays an important role in cell metabolism, embryonic development, and wound repair. The present study was performed using Pampus argenteus individuals fed with different feeds. The full-length cDNA of the MMP-9 gene was 2783 bp and encoded 681 amino ac ...
... Producing food according to the sustainability and “circular economy” principles is considered a strategic goal by several world Institutions. Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) responds to these criteria and stemming from it, the “Self-sufficient Integrated Multitrophic AquaPonic” (SIMTAP) aims to drastically reduce production inputs and waste outputs while maximizing the total food prod ...
... A wild-caught stock of greater amberjack Seriola dumerili reared in sea cages in two commercial aquaculture facilities in Greece was administered gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRHa), loaded in controlled release implants, and was used in spawning induction experiments throughout the reproductive season. Sperm quality was evaluated using computer-assisted sperm analysis (CASA) before and ...
Artemia; Seriola dumerili; aquaculture; marine fish; production costs; skeleton
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... Optimizing the growth and survival of marine fish larvae, while reducing the cost of production, is important for the development of viable hatcheries on an industrial scale. This study was aimed to determine whether Artemia sp. use could be minimized while maintaining high growth and survival, and low skeleton anomalies occurrence in greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili) during the weaning period. ...
... The absorption and depletion of dietary administered praziquantel (PZQ) were explored in greater amberjack, Seriola dumerili, a promising farmed fish species in the Mediterranean area and elsewhere. Greater amberjack weighing 84 g were fed once daily for 5 days on diets containing either 1.5 or 3.0 g/kg of PZQ to deliver dose rates of 30 or 60 mg/kg fish, respectively. During the first day, plasma ...
... Keap1 is an important component of Nrf2-Keap1 signaling pathways. However, information about Keap1 in T. ovatus is quiet limit. Thus, the full length of Keap1 was cloned from T. ovatus in this study. The full-length cDNA sequence was 3373 bp in length and comprised of a 1878 bp ORF preceded by 1205bp 5′-UTR, and followed a 290 bp 3′- UTR. The putative amino acid sequence of the Keap1 contains 625 ...
... The market for Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis) is expanding as global consumption increases. Meeting this demand has led to overfishing and consequent depletion of wild populations, resulting in a focus on aquaculture as an alternative to fishing. However, under the crowded conditions typical of tuna aquaculture settings, infectious diseases are a common problem associated with considera ...
Seriola dumerili; aquaculture; cages; catalase; dietary protein; fish; fish meal; heat stress; intestines; juveniles; liver; lysine; protein efficiency ratio; regression analysis; satiety; specific growth rate; weight gain
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... An 8‐week feeding trial was conducted to determine the dietary lysine requirement of greater amberjack, Seriola dumerili. Six experimental diets resulting from a practical basal formulation were produced to containing mainly plant ingredients (25% fish meal) were supplied with graded levels of crystalline L‐lysine‐HCl and the analysed lysine concentration in each diet was found to be 1.93 (basal d ...
... Despite its legislative regulation and control, the quality and safety of aquatic products is somewhat questioned due to the potential bioaccumulation of pollutants. The elements (Al, B, Ba, Ca, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, K, Li, Mg, Mn, Mo, Na, Ni, Pb, Sr, V and Zn) were determined in the liver and muscle of wild and captive-reared Seriola dumerili with the aim of studying possible differences between or ...
Seriola dumerili; coasts; genetic variation; juveniles; larvae; mitochondrial DNA; nucleotide sequences; otoliths; phylogeny; spawning; East China Sea
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... We examined the distribution and genetic variability of the greater amberjack Seriola dumerili in the East China Sea (ECS) from the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region of young-of-the-year (YOY) individuals, which may reflect the genetic characteristics of the spawning population. In the years 2016 and 2017, a total of 165 YOY S. dumerili were collected from two different locations in the ECS ...
Helianthus annuus; Seriola dumerili; aquaculture; biometry; body composition; diet; fish; fish oils; histology; inflammation; intestines; linseed; liver; probiotics; survival rate
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... Fish (175 g of initial weight) were fed in triplicated groups with four diets formulated by 0% (FO 100), 75% (FO 25) and 100% (with and without probiotics, FO 0 and FO 0+) of fish oil replacement consisting of a mixture of linseed, sunflower and palm oils. After 109 days, growth and nutritional parameters were not affected by the treatment; however, fish fed with 0% of fish oil showed the lowest s ...
... Petroleum platforms in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GOM) are important habitats for fishes and support regional fisheries. However, drivers of the horizontal (i.e., latitudinal and longitudinal) and vertical (i.e., position in the water column) distribution patterns of fishes associated with these artificial habitats are not fully understood on a GOM‐wide scale. To build upon previous studies on a lar ...
Seriola dumerili; body weight; brain; diet; fatty acids; fish; fish oils; liver; muscles; vegetables; visceral fat
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... The study aimed to evaluate how replacing different proportions of fish oil (FO) with vegetable oils (VO) in the diet of Mediterranean yellowtail, Seriola dumerili (Risso, 1810), affects the fatty acids (FA) signature, i.e.; overall FA profile, in different tissues. A total of 225 Mediterranean yellowtail juveniles (initial live weight: 176 ± 3.62 g) were fed for 109 days with one of three diets: ...
Seriola dumerili; coasts; plastics; Black Sea; Caucasus region
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... The first significant capture of Seriola dumerili in the Black Sea, namely, in Russian waters off the Caucasian coast, is reported. The main plastic and meristic features of the studied specimen are given. ...
... Four polyopisthocotyleans were collected from the gill filaments of carangids from off the Algerian coast, southern Mediterranean. Specimens of Gastrocotyle trachuri van Beneden & Hesse, 1863 (Gastrocotylidae) and Cemocotyle cf. trachuri Dillon & Hargis, 1965 (Heteraxinidae) from the Mediterranean horse mackerel Trachurus mediterraneus (Steindachner), Zeuxapta seriolae (Meserve, 1938) (Heteraxinid ...
Seriola dumerili; color; fatty acid composition; fillets; fish; fish meal; heavy metals; pH; protein sources; sensory evaluation; texture
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... An 84-day trial was performed to assess the use of alternative protein sources in Seriola dumerili. Three diets were used, FM100 diet, as a control diet without fishmeal substitution, and FM66 and FM33 diets with a fishmeal replacement of 330 g/kg and 660 g/kg, respectively. At the end of experiment, fish fed the FM66 diet showed the no differences in growth, nutritional parameters and fatty acid ...
Seriola dumerili; androstenedione; captive animals; dimorphism; estradiol; fish; histology; liquid chromatography; progesterone; sex ratio; sexual development; tandem mass spectrometry; testosterone
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... The histological process of gonadal differentiation, together with the endocrine changes of sex steroid hormones and some of their precursors, was studied in hatchery-produced greater amberjack Seriola dumerili from 101 until 408 days post-hatching (dph), with samplings conducted every 50 days. Histological processing showed that sex differentiation began at 101 dph with the formation of the ovari ...
Á. Fernández-Montero; S. Torrecillas; F. Acosta; T. Kalinowski; J. Bravo; J. Sweetman; J. Roo; A. Makol; J. Docando; M. Carvalho; M.S. Izquierdo; D. Montero
... The main objective of this study was to determine the effect of two feeding additives (cMOS: Actigen®, Alltech Inc., USA) and a phytogenic specifically designed for reducing ectoparasite incidence, combining garlic and labiatae herbal extracts (HERB; Delacon, Austria) on growth performance, stress and immune response of greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili) before and after an experimental parasiti ...
... The greater amberjack Seriola dumerili is a new aquaculture fish that may display reproductive dysfunctions. During extensive follicular atresia, which is a common reproductive dysfunction in females during vitellogenesis, part of the reabsorbed yolk returns to the liver to be metabolized and recycled. Melanomacrophage centres (MMCs) are aggregates of macrophage‐like cells that play a role in the ...
... Greater amberjack is one of the major candidate species for aquaculture diversification; however, with the exception of sporadic data on the proximate (PC) and fatty acid (FA) composition, limited knowledge exists regarding the quality variations occurring between wild and reared Greater amberjack. To expand this knowledge, the current study examined, besides the PC and FA composition of raw tissu ...
... The greater amberjack, Seriola dumerili, is a fast-growing pelagic teleost with great interest for the diversification of farmed marine fish species in the Mediterranean region. Aiming to advance the optimization of feeding during the early stage of this species, this study examines the ontogeny of digestive function using molecular and biochemical approaches. Gene expression of digestive enzyme p ...
Andre Barany; Neda Gilannejad; María Alameda-López; Liliana Rodríguez-Velásquez; Antonio Astola; Gonzalo Martínez-Rodríguez; Javier Roo; Jose Luis Muñoz; Juan Miguel Mancera
Seriola dumerili; carbohydrates; electrical resistance; electrophysiology; energy expenditure; intestines; juveniles; lipids; muscles; osmolality; osmoregulation; physiological state; salinity; seawater; water content
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... Osmotic costs in teleosts are highly variable, reaching up to 50% of energy expenditure in some. In several species, environmental salinities close to the isosmotic point (~15 psu) minimize energy demand for osmoregulation while enhancing growth. The present study aimed to characterize the physiological status related to osmoregulation in early juveniles of the greater amberjack, Seriola dumerili, ...
Seriola dumerili; abnormal development; fingerlings; fish larvae; hatching; lighting; phototaxis
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... Jaw malformations are a serious problem in fingerlings of the greater amberjack, Seriola dumerili. To establish a countermeasure against these malformations, we conducted a larval behavioural test to identify their root cause, and we investigated the ability of low‐brightness rearing tank walls to control their occurrence. Larval distribution was examined in a horizontally illuminated rectangular ...
... Skin mucus is considered the first barrier against diseases in fish. The skin mucus protein profile of the greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili) and its changes due to experimental infection with Neobenedenia girellae were studied by combining 2-DE-MS/MS and gel-free LC-MS/MS proteomic approaches. The 2-DE results led to the identification of 69 and 55 proteins in noninfected and infected fish, res ...
... The aquaculture of greater amberjack Seriola dumerili is of considerable research interest worldwide. The larviculture methods employed to culture this species, however, are still under development, and the majority of farms still rely on wild-caught juveniles. One of the problems associated with the hatchery production of this species is the optimal selection of broodstock to ensure a stable supp ...
... Neobenedenia girellae is considered an epizootic infection for intensively cultured fish species. Particularly, for greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili) N. girellae causes high mortality rates and supposes a bottleneck during its on-growing period. Thus, the objective of this work was to describe the skin morphological alterations caused by a N. girellae infection on greater amberjack. Greater amb ...
Lutjanus campechanus; Lutjanus griseus; Lutjanus synagris; Mycteroperca microlepis; Sargassum; Seriola dumerili; anaerobic conditions; coasts; energy; freshwater; grouper; habitats; juveniles; life history; oils; probability; river flow; Gulf of Mexico; Louisiana
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... In 2013–2014, remote video and diver surveys documented fish assemblages around 150 small oil platforms in nearshore federal waters off the entire Louisiana coast (≤ 18 m depth). Results were used to evaluate ecological processes driving differences in fish abundance and assemblages associated with platforms. The nearshore zone was characterized by high spatial and temporal environmental heterogen ...
Helianthus annuus; Seriola dumerili; bean meal; crude protein; diet; digestibility; essential amino acids; faba beans; fish; fish feeding; fish meal; ingredients; juveniles; krill; lipids; meat; pea meal; peas; protein value; soybeans; squid; wheat; wheat gluten
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... The apparent digestibility coefficients (ADCs) of dry matter, crude protein, crude lipid, and amino acids in fish, krill, squid, meat, defatted krill, soybean, wheat gluten, wheat, camilina, pea, sunflower, and fava bean meals were determined for juvenile Seriola dumerili. The results showed that the ADC of dry matter for yellowtail ranged from 57.7 to 87.2% for animal ingredients and from 42.2 to ...
Seriola dumerili; amino acid composition; body weight; digestible protein; essential amino acids; experimental diets; feed conversion; fish; fish meal; growth performance; potato protein concentrate; protein content; protein sources; weight gain
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... Potato protein concentrate (PPC) is a promising candidate as a fish meal (FM) substitute because it has high protein and essential amino acid content. In the present study, we replaced FM in greater amberjack diets with PPC to investigate the effect on growth and feed utilization. Four isonitrogenous, isolipidic and isocaloric experimental diets were prepared by substituting 0, 20, 40 and 60% of F ...
... This study investigated the effects of bovine lactoferrin (bLf) on the body surface defense factors, stress response to fresh water exposure, and anti-parasitic effects against Neobenedenia girellae in amberjack (Seriola dumerili) juveniles. In the first trial, amberjack juveniles were fed test diets supplemented with four different levels of bLf (0, 500, 1000, and 2000 mg kg−1) for 4 weeks to det ...
... Elevated mortality during early stages and high occurrence of skeletal anomalies are major concerns in Greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili) juvenile's production. Identification of nutritional requirements during live prey feeding stages, particularly those related with n-3 HUFA would help to formulate specific diets for this species improving larval survival and reducing skeleton anomalies. In th ...
... A well-balanced diet adapted to fulfil the specific nutritional requirements of greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili) would contribute to optimize reproduction and spawning quality. The main objective of the present study was to examine the effects of supplemental histidine, taurine and protein in broodstock diets, on egg quality of greater amberjack. Twelve broodstocks were distributed in three 40 ...
... Larvae and early juveniles of fast-growing fish species show tremendous growth potential, leading to higher requirements for protein, high-unsaturated fatty acids, and other nutrients. Several commercial weaning diets with relatively high success have been developed for low/moderate-growing species; however, additional challenges are outlined to meet growth potential and energy requirements of suc ...
... Appropriate binders have not yet been determined in pellet feed for amberjack Seriola dumerili juveniles. This study aimed to assess the influence of binders (activated gluten [AG], guar gum [GG], and carboxymethylcellulose [CMC]) on growth, feed ingestion, gastric emptying time (GET), digestibility, intestinal histology, body composition, and blood chemical constituents of amberjack juvenile. Dry ...
... Greater amberjack is a popular aquaculture species, but its nutritional requirements remain poorly understood. The present study aimed to identify feeding stimulants for greater amberjack from a synthetic extract (SE) of jack mackerel muscle. A bioassay involving a semi-purified casein diet supplemented with feeding stimulant candidates was performed. The SE was composed of amino acids, nucleotide ...
Álvaro Fernández-Montero; Silvia Torrecillas; Marisol Izquierdo; María José Caballero; Douglas John Milne; Christopher John Secombes; John Sweetman; Polyana Da Silva; Félix Acosta; Daniel Montero
... The main objective of this study was to determine the effect of two forms of mannan oligosaccharides (MOS: Bio-Mos® and cMOS: Actigen®, Alltech Inc, USA) and their combination on greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili) growth performance and feed efficiency, immune parameters and resistance against ectoparasite (Neobenedenia girellae) infection. Fish were fed for 90 days with 5 g kg−1 MOS, 2 g kg−1 c ...
... Reproduction control has been one of the main bottlenecks for the commercialization of greater amberjack Seriola dumerili, a promising species worldwide due to its rapid growth, large size and high market acceptability. Oocyte maturation, ovulation and spawning has been recently controlled successfully in a number of studies using hormonal therapies in the form of controlled-release delivery syste ...
J. Andres Sanchez-Henao; Natalia García-Álvarez; Antonio Fernández; Pedro Saavedra; Freddy Silva Sergent; Daniel Padilla; Begoña Acosta-Hernández; Manuela Martel Suárez; Jorge Diogène; Fernando Real
... This research identifies factors associated with the contamination by ciguatoxins (CTXs) in a population of fish and proposes a predictive score of the presence of CTX-like toxicity in amberjack samples from the official control program of ciguatera in the Canary Islands of the Directorate-General (DG) Fisheries (Canary Government). Out of the 970 samples of fish studied, 177 (18.2%) samples showe ...
José A. Pérez; Ioannis E. Papadakis; Nikos Papandroulakis; Lorenzo Cruces; Efthimia Cotou; Enric Gisbert; Antonio Lorenzo; Constantinos C. Mylonas; Covadonga Rodríguez
... An overall synchronization of morphological and physiological ontogenetic events of the digestive and antioxidant defence systems occurred in greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili) larvae reared under intensive (INT) or semi‐intensive (MES) conditions for 30 days. The first differentiations of the digestive channel took place at 3–4 days post‐hatch (dph) (3.6–3.7 mm). Differentiation of the endocrin ...
... The substitution of high-value fish species for those of lower value is common practice. Although numerous studies have addressed this issue, few have been conducted in Mexico. In this study, we sought to identify fresh fillets of fish, sharks, and rays using DNA barcodes. We analyzed material from “La Viga” in Mexico City, and other markets located on the Gulf and Caribbean coasts of Mexico. From ...
Seriola dumerili; fish; lead; new species; supermarkets; Italy; Spain
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... For farmers of new fish species, market adoption is needed in order to grow a viable business. Farmers may try to sell the new species in their firms’ domestic markets, but they might also look at other markets. However, as markets are becoming more global and competitors more international, considering internationalization may be a necessity rather than a choice. Using diffusion modelling, and ba ...
... The effects of gonadotropin‐releasing hormone agonist (GnRHa) on plasma levels of follicle‐stimulating hormone (Fsh) and luteinising hormone (Lh) are reported for female greater amberjack Seriola dumerili with post‐vitellogenic ovarian oocytes. Five females were implanted with pellets containing GnRHa (600 μg kg⁻¹ body weight), while five other females were injected with saline. All females implan ...
Alvaro Fernández‐Montero; Maria Jose Caballero; Silvia Torrecillas; Victor Manuel Tuset; Antoni Lombarte; Rafael Ruiz Ginés; Marisol Izquierdo; Lidia Robaina; Daniel Montero
Seriola dumerili; animal welfare; aquaculture; body weight; chemical composition; feed conversion; fingerlings; gastric emptying; gastrointestinal transit; growth performance; juveniles; liver; morphometry; nutrient retention; rearing; specific growth rate; temperature
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... In order to successfully diversify Mediterranean aquaculture, it is necessary to determine optimum culture conditions of potential candidate species such as greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili). Among culture conditions, rearing temperature is a key factor for achieving optimum growth and maintaining fish welfare. However, little is known about the optimum culture conditions of greater amberjack ( ...
Seriola dumerili; fish; models; mortality; population dynamics; sex ratio; Gulf of Mexico; United States
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... The US Gulf of Mexico stock assessment of greater amberjack Seriola dumerili assumes a 1:1 male:female sex ratio. However, the observed sex ratio in the landed catch is 1:1.8, and for fish >1 m fork length is 1:2.4. To theoretically explore whether this female-skewed sex ratio may arise due to differential fishing mortality between the sexes, we used a sex-specific age- and size-based model to inv ...
... BACKGROUND: The aquaculture sector needs to increase the diversity fish species and their processed products to cover rising consumer demands. Candidates for this diversification have been identified to be meagre, greater amberjack, pikeperch and wreckfish. Yet scientific knowledge on their sensory profiles and consumer hedonic responses is scarce. The aim of the current study was to investigate t ...
Bayesian theory; Seriola dumerili; marine fish; mark-recapture studies; mitochondrial DNA; models; population structure; Florida; Gulf of Mexico
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... The greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili) is a commercially and recreationally important marine fish species in the southeastern United States, where it has been historically managed as two non-mixing stocks (Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic). Mark-recapture studies and analysis of mitochondrial DNA have suggested the two stocks are demographically independent; however, little is currently known about w ...
... Since 2011, high mortality rates and symptoms consistent with vibriosis have been observed in farmed amberjack (Seriola dumerili) in Japan. To identify 41 strains isolated from diseased amberjack, a multilocus sequence analysis using nine concatenated genes (ftsZ, gapA, gyrB, mreB, pyrH, recA, rpoA, topA and 16S rRNA) was conducted. Twenty‐seven strains were identified as Vibrio harveyi, suggestin ...
... Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor δ (PPAR-δ), also called PPAR-β or PPAR-β/δ, is a member of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) family, which belongs to the nuclear steroid receptor superfamily. Activated PPARs participate in the regulation of lipid and glucose metabolism and also affect cellular proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis, and the immune responses. T ...
... This study was undertaken to assess the effects of fish oil (FO) substitution by a mixture of alternative vegetable oils (VO) on Seriola dumerili culture performance. A 154‐day feeding experiment was conducted using juveniles (39.2 ± 1.6 g average weight). Three isolipidic and isoenergetic meal‐based diets were formulated varying their lipid component. The control diet contained 100% FO (FO100), w ...
... We determined the dietary inosine effects in gradually replaced fishmeal (FM) with soybean meal (SBM) protein-based diets on growth, digestibility, immunity, stress resistance and gut morphology of juvenile amberjack. Seven experimental diets were formulated to be nearly isonitrogenous (48% crude protein) where diet 1 (D1) was FM based control diet. Diet 2 to 7 were formulated by replacing 25, 50 ...
Chrysovalentinos Pousis; Covadonga Rodríguez; Pasquale De Ruvo; Caterina De Virgilio; José A. Pérez; Constantinos C. Mylonas; Rosa Zupa; Letizia Passantino; Nicoletta Santamaria; Luisa Valentini; Aldo Corriero
... The greater amberjack Seriola dumerili (Risso, 1810) is a large migratory pelagic fish occurring in tropical and temperate waters with a great potential for the world aquaculture industry. Previous studies showed that wild-caught female greater amberjack reared in sea cages and handled during the reproductive season, underwent extensive ovarian atresia. This atresia, however, was not related to an ...
... Greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili) is distributed in tropical and temperate waters worldwide and is an important aquaculture fish. We carried out de novo sequencing of the greater amberjack genome to construct a reference genome sequence to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for breeding amberjack by marker-assisted or gene-assisted selection as well as to identify functional genes ...
Douglas John Milne; Álvaro Fernández-Montero; Manu K. Gundappa; Tiehui Wang; Félix Acosta; Silvia Torrecillas; Daniel Montero; Jun Zou; John Sweetman; Christopher John Secombes
... Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) play an important role in the innate immune response of vertebrates by creating a hostile environment for any invading pathogens. Piscidins are potent teleost specific AMPs, which have a broad spectrum activity. We have identified a novel piscidin active peptide, in the greater amberjack, Seriola dumerili, that consists of 25 aa, which forms an amphipathic helix with ...
Chrysovalentinos Pousis; Constantinos C Mylonas; Caterina De Virgilio; Gemma Gadaleta; Nicoletta Santamaria; Letizia Passantino; Rosa Zupa; Maria Papadaki; Ioannis Fakriadis; Rosalia Ferreri; Aldo Corriero
... The greater amberjack Seriola dumerili is an excellent candidate for the Mediterranean aquaculture, due to its large body size and high growth rate, as well as its high flesh quality and commercial value worldwide. For its successful incorporation in the aquaculture industry, an in‐depth understanding of the reproductive function of the species under rearing conditions is necessary, since completi ...
... Nocardiosis causes serious economic damage in the fish farming of Japanese yellowtail fish. Nocardia seriolae identified as pathogenic bacterium is an intracellular-pathogen. In general, induction of cell-mediated immunity (CMI) is effective in infection defense against intracellular-pathogen. However, the conventional formalin-killed N. seriolae (FKC) vaccine induces humoral immunity. Interleukin ...
... Interleukin-10 (IL-10) is an anti-inflammatory cytokine and negatively regulates cell-mediated immunity (CMI) induction by inhibiting cytokine production in type 1 T helper cells. IL-10 genes have been isolated from several fish, and inflammatory cytokine inhibition by IL-10 has been well examined. However, a CMI regulator of IL-10 in fish has not yet been identified. In this study, we cloned the ...
... Predicting antigens that would be protective is crucial for the development of recombinant vaccine using genome based vaccine development, also known as reverse vaccinology. High-throughput antigen screening is effective for identifying vaccine target genes, particularly for pathogens for which minimal antigenicity data exist. Using red sea bream iridovirus (RSIV) as a research model, we developed ...
Seriola dumerili; acoustics; biotelemetry; fish; marine fisheries; models; mortality; satellites; time series analysis; uncertainty; Gulf of Mexico
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... The Gulf of Mexico greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili) stock has been designated as “overfished” by the National Marine Fisheries Service and is currently under a rebuilding plan. Its fishery in the Gulf of Mexico is dominated by recreational landings, where 75% of the total recreational catch are regulatory discards; as such, uncertainty regarding the post-release mortality rate represents a dat ...
... To investigate the early life history of Seriola dumerili, we first validated otolith daily increments using reared fish (11–51 days after hatching). Four larval and early-juvenile S. dumerili were collected in May and July 2015 around the Penghu Islands, Taiwan (23.45–23.70 °N, 119.40–119.70 °E), by surface larval net towing, but not from drifting seaweeds. Seriola dumerili were caught at the the ...
... This study aimed to evaluate the effect of Lactococcus lactis K-C2 on the growth performance, microbial diversity, and release of free amino acids in the intestinal tract and the edible parts of young amberjack, Seriola dumerili. Fish were fed a diet with or without strain K-C2 (2 × 10¹⁰ cfu/g feed) for 25 days. The results indicated that the growth performance of fish in the treated group was sig ...
... A method based on high-performance liquid chromatography with fluorescence detection for the simultaneous analysis of retinoids (vitamin A) and tocopherols (vitamin E) was developed. This method consists of an isocratic solution using hexane/ethyl acetate (85:15, v/v) as the mobile phase and fluorescence detection using a time program that sets the excitation (Ex) and emission (Em) wavelengths at ...
... Production of sufficient high‐quality eggs of greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili) still constitutes the main bottleneck for commercial production of this species. The main objective of this study was to compare the quality of spontaneous spawn of greater amberjack with those obtained by either GnRHa injection or GnRHa implant protocols. Captive amberjack broodstock were distributed in three circu ...
Monogenea; Seriola dumerili; appetite; aquaculture; control methods; exposure duration; feeding behavior; fish; fish health; freshwater; gills; histology; histopathology; hydrogen peroxide; liver; parasites; praziquantel; summer; swimming; viability; water temperature; Japan
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... Amberjack Seriola dumerili (Carangidae) and yellowtail S. quinqueradiata are important commercial fish species in Japan; however, they are susceptible to skin and gill monogeneans. Recently, a treatment of 75ppm hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) for 30min was found to effectively eliminate these monogeneans. However, histological analyses of the host fish subjected to treatments with lower H2O2 concentrati ...
... The branchiuran parasite Argulus vittatus (Crustacea: Branchiura: Argulidae) was collected from the pectoral fin of the axillary bream Pagellus acarne, comber Serranus cabrilla, and greater amberjack Seriola dumerili from the northern coasts of Sicily (Mediterranean Sea), Italy. Pagellus acarne, Serranus cabrilla, and Seriola dumerili are new hosts for A. vittatus. ...
... We explored the influence of nucleoside by‐products (NBP) on blood chemistry, immune response, oxidative stress and intestinal morphology of Seriola dumerili. Four experimental diets were formulated where diets 1–3 are semipurified and supplemented with liquid NBP at concentration of 0 (D1, negative control), 30 (D2) and 90 (D3) g/kg. Diet 4 (D4) is a fishmeal‐based positive control diet. Each die ...
Seriola dumerili; animals; antinutritional factors; corn gluten; diet; digestibility; digestible energy; digestible protein; energy intake; essential amino acids; feed conversion; feed intake; fish meal; ingredients; juveniles; krill; meat meal; mortality; protein content; protein efficiency ratio; protein intake
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... A 154‐day trial was performed to assess the use of an alternative protein blend (corn gluten, krill and meat meal) as a substitute for fishmeal in diets for juvenile yellowtail, using four isolipidic (140 g/kg) and isoenergetic diets (24 MJ/kg) with the same digestible protein content (50%). The control diet was FM100, without replacement, and in FM66, FM33 and FM0, fishmeal was replaced at 33 g/k ...
... Aquaculture plays an important role in supplying the fresh fish. However its production is dominated by only few long-established species that in turn limit the variety of available products in the market. Therefore, new fish species need to be properly introduced to create a diversification in the current market. In order to achieve this goal, it is important to know, understand and characterize ...
... The aim of this study was to assess the effect of two rearing conditions: outdoor environment with great volume tanks (500 m³) and low stocking density (~0.4 kg m⁻³); and indoor environment with smaller volume tanks (10 m³) and higher stocking density (~5 kg m⁻³), on muscle, liver and ovary lipid composition of Seriola dumerili broodstock born in captivity. The rearing conditions tested seem to af ...
... A 50-day feeding trial was conducted to determine the effects of dietary inosine on growth performance, immune responses, oxidative stress and gut morphology of juvenile amberjack, Seriola dumerili. Five isonitrogenous (52% crude protein) and isolipidic (14% crude lipid) semi-purified test diets were prepared by supplementing incremental levels of dietary inosine nucleoside at 0% (D1, control), 0. ...
... Interleukin (IL) -12 is a heterodimeric cytokine mainly produced by monocytes, macrophages, and dendritic cells in mammals. IL-12p70 composed of IL-12p35 and IL-12p40, is known to play a crucial role in promoting cell-mediated immunity (CMI) through Th1 differentiation and IFN-γ production. Although two types of IL-12p35 (p35a, p35b) and three types of IL-12p40 (p40a, p40b and p40c) have been iden ...
... A baited videographic survey at Pitcairn Island has significantly extended the known range for two reef‐fish species: blue‐lined triggerfish Xanthichthys caeruleolineatus and greater amberjack Seriola dumerili, with an additional minor extension noted for giant trevally Caranx ignobilis. This highlights the importance of further research in this remote, poorly studied island group and provides evi ...
Seriola dumerili; Seriola lalandi; Seriola rivoliana; aquaculture; genetic improvement; nutrient requirements; public policy; research institutions; statistics; Australia; Canary Islands; Central America; China; Japan; New Zealand; United States; Vietnam
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... The aim of this review is to provide an update of Seriola spp. farming in the world, excluding yellowtail (S. quinqueradiata), and to identify strengths and weaknesses of these species as candidates for aquaculture diversification in different areas of the world. Farmed Seriola species other than yellowtail are yellowtail kingfish (S. lalandi) in Japan and Australia, longfin yellowtail (S. rivolia ...
Monogenea; Seriola dumerili; Seriola quinqueradiata; appetite; cages; control methods; farmed fish; field experimentation; fish behavior; fish health; freshwater; gills; hydrogen peroxide; net pens; oral administration; parasites; praziquantel; summer; swimming; viability; water temperature; Japan
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... Infection by the capsalid monogeneans Benedenia seriolae and Neobenedenia girellae, and/or the microcotylid monogenean Zeuxapta japonica can be a problem when the greater amberjack Seriola dumerili (Carangidae) is commercially cultured. Effective control measures against these monogeneans that are safe for S. dumerili, especially during the summer when the ocean temperature increases, are still ne ...
... The collagen distribution in cultured specimens of amberjack and yellowtail were assessed by histochemical observation in relation to the meat texture of the fish. Major structural alteration was observed in the level of pericellular connective tissue of yellowtail that had higher muscle lipid content; these changes are likely to be associated with the large-scale changes in muscle firmness result ...
DNA primers; Seriola dumerili; cages; control methods; fish culture; fish farms; flukes; labor; larvae; marine fish; mitochondrial DNA; monitoring; quantitative polymerase chain reaction
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... Skin fluke Neobenedenia girellae infection is a chronic problem in marine finfish aquaculture. Current control measures rely on bath treatments, which are labor intensive and cause significant stress to fish. Although there is an urgent need to develop a strategy to prevent this infection, little is known about the distribution of the larval stage of the skin fluke around culture cages. We aimed t ...
... The diversity and distribution of the early stages of carangid fishes were investigated in relation to environmental conditions off the Catalan Coast (NW Mediterranean). Data were obtained during four oceanographic cruises conducted in spring–summer 2003 and 2004. A total of 4743 larvae from seven species and five genera were identified. Most were thermophilic species very abundant in the warm wat ...
... Disease outbreaks occurred during 2007–2013 in Taiwan with 2.5–10% mortality among the cage cultured cobia, Rachycentron canadum (L.), characterized by the presence of polyserositis, pericarditis and peritonitis. The micro‐organisms isolated from internal organs were Gram‐positive cocci. The isolates were confirmed as Streptococcus dysgalactiae by a polymerase chain reaction assay that yielded the ...
... Reliable reproduction and sufficient amounts of juveniles obtained in captivity constitute a main bottleneck for mass production of greater amberjack. The aim of the present study was to combine several aspects of broodstock management and hormonal induction, to obtain a large number of high quality spawns. Captured Seriola dumerili sub‐adults were kept for three years in 10 m³ tanks. When fish we ...
... The advent of molecular technologies allow for identification of organisms that were previously challenging or not possible. Conventional polymerase chain reaction analyses of a segment of the small subunit ribosomal RNA gene from trypanorhynch plerocerci obtained from cultured and wild caught amberjacks, Seriola dumerili, and Seriola rivoliana of the family Carangidae from Hawai‘i and Japan were ...
... The recovery of several top predators in the Gulf of Mexico is likely to increase predation on and competition with other target and nontarget species, possibly causing the abundance of those species to decline. While changes are taking place at the upper trophic levels, exploitation of prey species and climate change are altering productivity at the lower levels. An Ecopath with Ecosim model was ...