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PROBASS -Effect of early rearing temperarure on sex differentiation and sex ratio in European seabass (EU FP5)

Latest version published by Hellenic Center for Marine Research on Sep 14, 2020 Hellenic Center for Marine Research

This dataset examines the effect of three different early life rearing temperatures on the process of sex differentiation of two populations of Europea seabass from the Mediterranean Sea, and the resulting growth and sex ratio. In particular, European sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax of the north-western (NW) and south-eastern (SE) Mediterranean Sea strains were exposed to different temperatures (13, 17 or 21oC) during the larval rearing (11—51 days post hatching, dph) or nursery periods (55—95 dph), in order to examine the effects of temperature on sex differentiation and subsequent growth during the first year of life.

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Journal of Fish Biology (2005) 67, 652—668

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Hellenic Center for Marine Research. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

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Keywords

Metadata; Dicentrarchus; sex differentiation; growth; temperature

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Constantinos Mylonas
Director
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research Former U.S. Base of Gournes 71500 Heraklion Crete GR 30 2810337801
http://imbbc3.hcmr.gr/

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Constantinos Mylonas
Director
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research Former U.S. Base of Gournes 71500 Heraklion Crete GR 30 2810337801
http://imbbc3.hcmr.gr/

Who filled in the metadata:

Constantinos Mylonas
Director
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research Former U.S. Base of Gournes 71500 Heraklion Crete GR 30 2810337801
http://imbbc3.hcmr.gr/

Who else was associated with the resource:

Content Provider
Lina Anezaki
Head of Fisheries Department
Region of Crete Chania GR 3028213 46507
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Pascal Divanach
Research Director
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research Former U.S. Base of Gournes 71500 Heraklion Crete GR +30 2810 337767
http://www.imbbc.hcmr.gr/users/pascaldivanach
Content Provider
Silvia Zanuy
Research Professor
Institute of Aquaculture of Torre La Sal Madrid ES
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Francesc Piferrer
Research Professor
Spanish National Research Council Madrid ES
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Benny Ron
National Center for Mariculture Eliat IL
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Adi Peduel
National Center for Mariculture Eliat IL
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Isashar Ben‐Atia
National Center for Mariculture Eliat IL
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Sergei Gorshkov
National Center for Mariculture Eliat IL
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Amos Tandler
Professor
National Center for Mariculture Eliat IL

Geographic Coverage

The experiments were undertaken in two locations, using two strains of European sea bass from the north-western (NW) and south-eastern (SE) Mediterranean Sea. NW strains are from the coasts of Israel and the SE from the Lake Edku (Nile River estuarine zone, Egypt).

Bounding Coordinates South West [30.77, 29.553], North East [32.528, 35.112]

Taxonomic Coverage

European sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax

Species  Dicentrarchus labrax (European sea bass)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2001-01-01 / 2003-01-01

Project Data

A very important problem of the European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) aquaculture industry is the occurrence of 70-99% males. Male-dominant stocks are undesirable, because males exhibit reduced somatic growth compared to females, resulting in 20-40% smaller body weight at harvest. Therefore, it is desirable to culture predominantly female stocks. The overall objective of PROBASS is to understand the mechanisms regulating sex differentiation in cultured sea bass, in order to develop methodologies to minimise the proportion of males in cultured stocks. This will result in an increase in production efficiency and profitability of the EU sea bass industry, since femaledominant stocks will reach market size earlier and produce more muscle mass. There is accumulating evidence that sex differentiation in sea bass may be under the control of complex genetic and environmental interactions.

Title PROBASS
Identifier Grant agreement ID: Q5RS-2000-31365
Funding EU FP5

The personnel involved in the project:

Principal Investigator
Constantinos Mylonas

Sampling Methods

The NW strain was maintained at the Institute of Aquaculture, Hellenic Center for Marine Research (previously Institute of Marine Biology of Crete), Crete, Greece, and the SE strain at the National Center for Mariculture, Eilat, Israel. The broodstock of the SE strain were the offsprings of wild fish originally collected in the mid 1980s from the brackish-water Lake Edku (Nile River estuarine zone, Egypt).

Study Extent The experiments were undertaken in two locations, using two strains of European sea bass from the north-western (NW) and south-eastern (SE) Mediterranean Sea. The SE strain was compared with the NW because it inhabits waters of higher annual temperatures (coast of Israel and Egypt) and could have adapted to different thermal preferences.

Method step description:

  1. NORTH-WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA STRAIN: Fertilized eggs were obtained on 22 February, 2001 from a spontaneously spawning stock of wild origin, exposed to ambient temperature and photic conditions throughout the year. SOUTH-EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA STRAIN: Fertilized eggs were obtained on 14 March, 2001 from a broodstock maintained in tanks under natural photoperiod and a thermal regime simulating the annual fluctuations of temperature in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Alternative Identifiers http://ipt.medobis.eu/resource?r=fish_probass1