Amazonian fish
NUTRITIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF AMAZONIAN FISH FAT (Colossoma macropomum) AND ITS EFFECT ON LIPID METABOLISM OF RATS FED HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIC DIETS1
... The effects of fat from tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum), an Amazonian fish, on some nutritional and lipid parameters in rats were evaluated. Weaned Wistar rats were fed for 6 weeks with hypercholesterolemic ...
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Assessment of trace metals in Amazonian fish exposed to untreated urban sewage: high chromium concentrations in fish tissues
... of fish meat in relation to inorganic contaminants (Zn, Pb, Cu, Cr, Ni and Hg), following the Brazilian Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) standards in five Amazonian fish exposed to untreated urban ...
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Giant Amazonian fish pirarucu (Arapaima gigas): Its viscera as a source of thermostable trypsin
... other fish and mammalian trypsins ...zone fish, pacific ...a fish native to cold regions, in the first nine N-terminal amino acids (IVG- ...the Amazonian fish tambaqui, which occupies ...
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Lymphocytic meningoencephalomyelitis associated with Myxobolus sp. (Bivalvulidae: Myxozoa) infection in the Amazonian fish Eigenmannia sp. (Sternopygidae: Gymnotiformes)
... The findings described in the present study enabled us to characterize a CNS infection in Eigenmannia sp. caused by spores of the genus Myxobolus, where histopathology characterized lymphocytic meningoencephalomyelitis ...
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Manipulation of growth of the Amazonian fish tambaqui, Colossoma macropomum (Characiformes: Serrasalmidae): analysis of physiological and zootechnical aspects
... native fish most farmed in Brazil, however, technological advances are needed to reach efficient production ...for fish rearing is prohibited in Brazil, yet the experimental use of bovine hormone can be ...
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Evidence of polygamy in the socially monogamous Amazonian fish Arapaima gigas (Schinz, 1822) (Osteoglossiformes, Arapaimidae)
... The first studies of reproductive biology of the Arapaima gigas in captivity were conducted by Oliveira (1944) and Fontenele (1948), who reported important biological data such as that it lays its eggs in lentic water, ...
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ULTRASTRUCTURE OF OVARIAN FOLLICULAR EPITHELIUM OF THE AMAZONIAN FISH Pseudotylosurus microps (TELEOSTEI: BELONIDAE): MORPHOLOGICAL AND HISTOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE INTERCELLULAR DEPOSITS
... The electrondense deposits that acccumulate in the intercellular spaces of follicular epithelium and in the perioocytic space tend to increase as the oocyte proceed in its development.. [r] ...
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SOCIAL ISOLATION AND AGGRESSIVENESS IN THE AMAZONIAN JUVENILE FISH Astronotus ocellatus
... We tested the effect of social isolation on the aggressiveness of an Amazonian fish: Astronotus ocellatus. Ten juvenile fishes were transferred from a group aquarium (60 x 60 x 40 cm) containing 15 ...
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Effect of storage temperature on histamine formation in Sardina pilchardus and Engraulis encrasicolus
... decaying fish as well as a cause of food borne illness; specifically scombroid ...caught fish does not contain histamine. However, once fish starts to decay or is subject of abuse temperature ...
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Fish predation by semi-aquatic spiders: a global pattern.
... A fish prey must always first be dragged by the spider to a dry place before the feeding process can begin ...a fish prey to a dry site prior to Figure 6. Fish caught by spiders – examples from ...
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Metabolic basis of growth variation in juvenile sole (Solea senegalensis, Kaup 1858)
... each fish individually throughout the experimental ...tagging, fish were randomly transferred to a 10L bucket filled with 5L of sea water and anaesthetic, 2- phenoxyethanol (Sigma-Aldrich, Germany; 1:150 ...
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Repositório Institucional da UFPA: Diet and niche breadth and overlap in fish communities within the area affected by an Amazonian reservoir (Amapá, Brazil)
... many fish species (zeug and Winemiller 2008) in different habitats in Pantanal, a Brazilian floodplain, there is no pattern on the use of seasonal food resources (Novakowski et ...
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Potential of fisheries restocking off the Algarve coast using aquaculture produced marine fish
... hatchery fish may have a reduced genetic variability (Taniguchi 2004), and this may eventually lower the genetic diversity in the population into which it is released; and (2) genetic viability of wild populations ...
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ALM SPECIES IN CENTRAL AMAZONIAN FOREST
... ABSTRACT CT CT CT – CT – – – – (Weedy and secondary palms in amazonian fragments) Forest fragmentation may affect the abundance and distribution of organisms. Some species populations decrease being eventually ...
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Fish is food--the FAO's fish price index.
... a fish price index (FPI) would track the extent to which seafood as a whole is becoming more or less ...For fish, the question is complicated by the diversity of species and the fact that fish is ...
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Diet of Astyanax species (Teleostei, Characidae) in an Atlantic Forest River in Southern Brazil
... opportunistic fish, it could be expected that the diet of Astyanax would change from potamal to rithral zone because of differences in habitat and food resource ...
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Selectivity of fish ladders: a bottleneck in Neotropical fish movement
... for fish trans- position in Brazil is an inglorious task, given that these facili- ties are, in general, constructed with vague or imprecise ob- jectives (passage of fish), under strong legal ...moving ...
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Evaluation of the addition of ascorbic acid to the ration of cultivated Piaractus mesopotamicus (Characidae) on the infrapopulation of Anacanthorus penilabiatus (Monogenea)
... control fish started eating 24 h after food presentation, while vitamin C- supplemented fish ate the diet during the afternoon of the same ...freshwater fish, and their parasites such as monogeneans ...
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Repositório Institucional da UFPA: Determinantes da estrutura de comunidades de insetos aquáticos em riachos na Amazônia: o papel do habitat e da escala especial
... CAPÍTULO IV: REGIONAL CONTEXT STRUCTURING AQUATIC INSECT COMMUNITIES IN AMAZONIAN STREAMS: RESPONSES FOR SPECIES REPLACEMENT, RICHNESS DIFFERENCE AND FUNCTIONAL COMPOSITION …[r] ...
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