Salmon is A Salmon ...
In fact, all over the world, a salmon is a salmon; that simple, stupid! This is still the impression you get when you read the latest aquaculture papers, even in top scientific journals. Laboratories working with Atlantic salmon, in North America, South America, Australia, Europe, or Asia, for examp...
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Zenodo
2023
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Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7820847 https://zenodo.org/record/7820847 |
Summary: | In fact, all over the world, a salmon is a salmon; that simple, stupid! This is still the impression you get when you read the latest aquaculture papers, even in top scientific journals. Laboratories working with Atlantic salmon, in North America, South America, Australia, Europe, or Asia, for example, always identify their study object as Salmo salar ‒ and advanced authors add the naming authority in its Latin form, 'Linnaeus', and, for the brave, even the year of publication, '1758'. So simple! However, nature is more complex and provides much more diversity and information, even within a single taxon, than many research efforts, especially those aimed at human food production, have anticipated. Genetic diversity may satisfy biologists, but it puzzles aquaculturists interested in the safe (mass) production of proteinaceous foods. But even at the non-genetic level, the epi-genetic level, significant diversifications are possible. Animals, whether protists, invertebrates, or vertebrates, respond very ... |
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