Assessment of stress and nutritional biomarkers in cultured Octopus

• Published in: Aquaculture
• Main Authors: Garrido, Diego, Varó, Inmaculada, Morales, Amalia Encarnación, Hidalgo, María del Carmen, Navarro, Juan Carlos, Hontoria, F., Monroig, Óscar, Iglesias, J., Otero-Pinzas, Juan José, Estévez, Alicia, Pérez, J., Martín, María Virginia, Rodríguez, C., Almansa, Eduardo, Gardenete, G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Antioxidant defences; Centro Oceanográfico de Canarias; Acuicultura; Geographical origin; Heat shock protein; Marine phospholipids; Nucleic acid ratios; Octopus vulgaris paralarvae; Tarragona; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10508/10972; http://hdl.handle.net/10261/313016; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2016.11.023

The common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) is a promising species for aquaculture diversification, but massive mortality during the first life-cycle stages (paralarvae) is the main bottleneck for its commercial production in captivity. The aim of this study was to assess stress and nutritional condition...