Direct prediction of Atlantic salmon growth performance from gene expression measurements

• Main Authors: Silva, Tomé S., Ramos-Pinto, L., Lock, E., Hemre, G.-I., Hamre, Kristin, Johansen, J., Pérez-Sánchez, Jaume, Calduch-Giner, Josep A., Fernandes, Jorge M. O., Tocher, Douglas R., Betancor, M., Dias, Jorge, Conceição, Luis E. C.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Atlantic salmon
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/191300

Trabajo presentado en Aquaculture Europe 17, celebrado en Dubrovnik (Croacia), del 17 al 20 de octubre de 2017 Measurement of gene expression in the tissues of fish is increasingly a common practice in aquaculture and fish nutrition research trials, due to the underlying assumption that important information on the physiological, nutritional and immunological state of fish can be recovered from such measurements. In this study, we seek to determine whether it is possible to go beyond a qualitative assessment of fish nutritional state, and obtain a quantitative measure of fish growth potential (i.e. prediction of fish growth) from gene expression measurements (in liver, muscle, head kidney and red blood cell samples) obtained at the end of a short feeding trial with distinct diets, using Atlantic salmon as animal model. Peer reviewed