The available database comprises research projects in Fisheries, Aquaculture, Seafood Processing and Marine Biotechnology active in the time period 2003-2022.
BlueBio is an ERA-NET COFUND created to directly identify new and improve existing ways of bringing bio-based products and services to the market and find new ways of creating value from in the blue bioeconomy.

More information on the BlueBio project and participating funding organizations is available on the BlueBio website: www.bluebioeconomy.eu

Last Update: 2024/06/19

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Aquaculture
Phenotypic plasticity in salmonid muscle development: quantifying growth potential
National Programme
National
Purba Pal
purba.pal@nrm.se
ULUND - Lund University (Sweden)
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2005
2005
€ 900
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The current study aims to investigate phenotypic plasticity in the muscular cellularity of Salmo trutta. Muscular cellularity refers to the balance between muscle fibre recruitment (hyperplasia) and enlargement of existing fibres (hypertrophy). Fishes are unique from other vertebrates in the sense that muscle development is a lifelong process in fishes. Every step of muscle development is plastic and often limited by different factors that could either be genetic, environmental or ontogenetic. Therefore the present study has selected four strains of brown trout that have been raised under natural conditions and released in the fish free stream in Skåne for one season. This is to minimize the expected variation in muscle cellularity (number and size distribution of muscle fibres in the myotome) exerted by genetic differences. The current study is also a perfect start of a more detailed project on adaptive plasticity in muscle growth in wild and captive trout populations over different developmental stages (juvenile, medium and adult) from various climatic regions. The two most significant aspects of this project are: (1) The characterisation of strain-specific plasticity in muscle growth in brown trout; (2) Its application to control/optimize the flesh quality of farmed fish populations since muscular cellularity largely determines the texture of the flesh.
Salmon; Fish; Genetic; Fish biology;
Not associated to marine areas
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