CIIMAR has embraced a new challenging project, the INNOVMAR - Innovation and Sustainability in the Management and Exploitation of Marine Resources is the new integrated project funded by the Northern Regional Operational Programme (NORTE2020) through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The INSEAFOOD - Innovation and valorization of seafood products: meeting local challenges and opportunities - is one of the main research lines integrated in this structured project.

The main goal of INSEAFOOD is to potentiate CIIMAR scientific competences in the area of Aquaculture and Seafood Quality, that are relevant for the implementation of the North Portugal Strategy for Smart Specialization. The aim of this research line is to generate high quality scientific knowledge and innovation, through the production of added value sea food items leading to more sustainable and better performing food chains. INSEAFOOD involves an exceptional team of CIIMAR researchers complemented with the inclusion of new scientific posts, young researchers and doctoral students that will reinforce the capacity to compete in the aquaculture and seafood quality research areas. Research effort will be focused on economically important and well established shellfish (Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas) and finfish species (European seabass, Dicentrarchus labrax) that play a major role in the Portuguese aquaculture sector. The project will also focus on the monitoring of marine algae and European sea urchin (Paracentrotus lividus) populations from the north sea coast of Portugal. Finally, an assessment of the economic potential of high quality sea urchin roe produced under captivity through dietary modulation will be performed.

It was released the first INSEAFOOD project e-Newsletter, which summarizes part of the research work developed in the first 12 month of project (01/01/2016 to 31/12/2016). The INSEAFOOD e-Newsletter will be published at months 18, 24 and 32 and will provide information on project progress, scientific publications, participation on events, project meetings and organized events and news dissemination. 
 

Scientific Publications

Amaro, HM, Guedes, AC, Preto, MAC, Sousa-Pinto, I, Malcata, FX. 2018. Gloeothece sp. a nutraceutical source - an improved method of extraction of carotenoid and fatty acids. Marine Drugs 16, 327. https://doi.org/10.3390/md16090327

Amaro, HM, Rato, A, Matias, D, Joaquim, S, Machado, J, Gonçalves, JFM, Vaz-Pires, P, Ozório, ROA, Pereira, LF, Azevedo, IC, Sousa-Pinto, I, Guedes, AC. 2019. Alga diet formulation – An attempt to reduce oxidative stress during broodstock conditioning of Pacific oysters. Aquaculture 500 (1), 540-549. https://doi.org/10.3390/md16090327

Azeredo, R, Machado, M, Afonso, A, Fierro-Castro, C, Reyes-López, FE, Tort, L, Gesto, M, Conde-Sieira, M, Míguez, JM, Soengas, JL, Kreuz, E, Wuertz, S, Peres, H, Oliva-Teles, A, Costas, B. 2017. Neuroendocrine and immune responses undertake different fates following tryptophan or methionine dietary treatment: Tales from a teleost model. Frontiers inImmunology 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2017.01226

Azeredo, R, Machado, M, Guardiola, FA, Cerezuela, R, Afonso, A, Peres, H, Oliva-Teles, A, Esteban, MA, Costas, B. 2017. Local immune response of two mucosal surfaces of the European seabass, Dicentrarchus labrax, fed tryptophan- or methionine-supplemented diets. Fish & Shellfish Immunology 70, 76-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsi.2017.09.016

Azizi, R, Rangel, L, Castro, R, Santos, MJ, Bahri, S. 2016. Morphology, seasonality and phylogeny of Zschokkella trachini n. sp. (Myxozoa, Myxosporea) infecting the gallbladder of Greater Weever Trachinus draco (L.) from Tunisian waters. Parasitology Research 115 (11), 4129–4138. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-016-5187-y

Baião, LF, Rocha, F, Costa, M, Sá, T, Oliveira, A, Maia, MRG, Fonseca, AJM, Pintado, M, Valente, LMP. 2019. Effect of protein and lipid levels in diets for adult sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus (Lamarck, 1816). Aquaculture. 506, 127-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2019.03.005

Baião, LF, Rocha, F, Sá, T, Oliveira, A, Pintado, M, Lima, RC, Cunha, LM, Valente, LMP. 2022. Sensory profiling, liking and gonad composition of sea urchin gonads fed synthetic or natural sources of β-carotene enriched diets. Aquaculture 549: 737778. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2021.737778

Bertocci, I, Blanco, A, Franco, JN, Fernández-Boo, S, Arenas, F. 2018. Short-term variation of abundance of the purple sea urchin, Paracentrotus lividus (Lamarck, 1816) subject to harvesting in northern Portugal, Marine Environmental Research 141, 247-254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2018.09.017

Boto, M, Almeida, CMR, Mucha, AP. 2016. Potential of constructed wetlands for removal of antibiotics from saline aquaculture effluents. Water 8, 465. https://doi.org/10.3390/w8100465

Camacho, C, Rocha, AC, Barbosa, VL, Anacleto, P, Carvalho, ML, Rasmussen, RR, Sloth, JJ, Almeida, CMR, Marques, A, Nunes, ML. 2018. Macro and trace elements in Paracentrotus lividus gonads from South West Atlantic areas. Environmental Research 162, 297-307. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2018.01.018

Cardoso, C, Gomes, R, Rato, A, Joaquim, S, Machado, J, Gonçalves, JFM, Vaz-Pires, P, Magnoni, LJ, Matias, D, Coelho, I, Delgado, I, Castanheira, I, Matos, J, Ozório, ROA, Bandarra, NM, Afonso, C. 2018. Elemental composition and bioaccessibility of farmed oysters (Crassostrea gigas) fed different ratios of dietary seaweed and microalgae during broodstock conditioning. Food Science and Nutrition 7 (8): 2495-2504 https://doi.org/10.1002/fsn3.1044

Castro, R, Cavaleiro, FI, Rangel, LF, Rocha, S, Severino, R, Casal, G, Santos, MJ. 2018. Myxozoan parasites of the European sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax (Teleostei: Moronidae): correlates of infections at the micro- and macroenvironment scales. Aquaculture 485, 17-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2017.11.013

Cavaleiro, FI, Rangel, LF, Duarte, F, Santos, MJ. 2017. Syndesmis aethopharynx Westervelt & Kozloff, 1990 (Rhabdocoela: Umagillidae): a revisitation supported by scanning electron microscopy and molecular analyses. Systematic Parasitology 94 (9), 1007-1017. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-017-9754-0

Cavaleiro, FI, Frade, D, Rangel, LF, Santos, MJ. 2018. Syndesmis François, 1886 (Rhabdocoela: Umagillidae): a revisitation, with a synopsis and an identification key to species, and new molecular evidence for ascertaining the phylogeny of the group. Systematic Parasitology 95 (2-3), 147-171. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-018-9781-5

Costa, G, Costa, L, Santos, MJ, Melo-Morais, E. 2018. A review of parasites of deep-water fishes from Macaronesian Islands, North-East Atlantic Ocean. Open Parasitology Journal 6, 17-31. DOI: 10.2174/1874421401806010017

Coutinho, F, Simões, R, Monge-Ortiz, R, Furuya, WM, Pousão-Ferreira, PM, Kaushik, S, Oliva-Teles, A, Peres, H. 2017. Effects of dietary methionine and taurine supplementation to low-fish meal diets on growth performance and oxidative status of European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) juveniles. Aquaculture 479, 447-454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2017.06.017

de Moura, L, Diógenes, AF, Campelo, DAV, de Almeida, FLA, Pousão-Ferreira, PM, Furuya, WM, Oliva-Teles, A, Peres, H. 2018. Taurine and methionine supplementation as a nutritional strategy for growth promotion of meagre (Argyrosomus regius) fed high plant protein diets. Aquaculture 497, 389-395. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2018.07.038

Diógenes, AF, Basto, A, Estevão-Rodrigues, TT, Moutinho, S, Aires, T, Oliva-Teles, A. 2019. Soybean meal replacement by corn distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) and exogenous non-starch polysaccharidases supplementation in diets for gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata) juveniles. Aquaculture 500, 435-442.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2018.10.035

Diógenes, AF, Castro, C, Carvalho, M, Magalhães, R, Estevão-Rodrigues, TT, Serra, CR, Oliva-Teles, A, Peres, H. 2018. Exogenous enzymes supplementation enhances diet digestibility and digestive function and affects intestinal microbiota of turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) juveniles fed distillers' dried grains with solubles (DDGS) based diets. Aquaculture 486, 42-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2017.12.013

Diógenes, AF, Castro, C, Miranda, AC, Oliva-Teles, A, Peres, H. 2018. Dietary replacement of fishmeal by corn distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) in diets for turbot (Scophthalmus maximus, Linneaus, 1758) juveniles. Aquaculture 492, 113-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2018.04.005

Diógenes, AF, Teixeira, C, Almeida, E, Skrzynska, A, Benjamín, C, Oliva-Teles, A, Peres, H. 2019. Effects of dietary tryptophan and chronic stress in gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata) juveniles fed corn distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) based diets. Aquaculture 498, 396-404. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2018.08.079

Fernández-Boo, S, Pedrosa-Oliveira, MH, Afonso, A, Arenas, F, Rocha, F, Valente, LMP, Costas, B. 2018. Annual assessment of the sea urchin (Paracentrotus lividus) innate immune status: tales from the northern Portuguese coast. Marine Environmental Research 141, 128-137.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2018.08.007

Frade, D, Nogueira, S, Santos, MJ, Cavaleiro, F. 2016. The challenges of asymmetric mating - The influence of male and female size on the reproductive output of Acanthochondria cornuta (Chondracanthidae). Parasitology 143 (14), 1945-1953. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182016001578

Gadelha, JR, Rocha, AC, Camacho, C, Eljarrat, E, Peris, A, Aminot, Y, Readman, JW, Boti, V, Nannou, C, Kapsi, M, Albanis, T, Richa, F, Machado, A Bordalo, A, Valente, LMP, Nunes, ML, Marques, A, Almeida, CMR. 2019. Persistent and emerging pollutants assessment on aquaculture oysters (Crassostrea gigas) from NW Portuguese coast (Ria de Aveiro)” submitted to Science of the Total Environment 666, 731-742. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.02.280

Garbouj, M, Rangel, L, Castro, R, Hmissi, J, Santos, MJ, Bahri, S. 2016. Morphological description and phylogeny of Ceratomyxa scorpaeni n. sp. (Myxosporea: Ceratomyxidae) infecting the gallbladder of Scorpaena porcus (L.) (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae) from the Bay of Bizerte in Tunisia. Parasitology Research 115 (12), 4495-4502. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-016-5236-6

Garbouj, M, Rangel, L, Santos, MJ, Bahri, S. 2018. Ceratomyxa gouletti n. sp. (Myxosporea: Ceratomyxidae), a parasite of the red scorpionfish Scorpaena scrofa (L.) from Tunisian waters. Parasitology Research 117(6), 1933-1939. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-018-5888-5

Garbouj, M, Rangel, L, Santos, MJ, Bahri, S. 2019. New host and geographical records for Zschokkella candia (Myxosporea: Myxidiidae) from Scorpaena porcus (Teleostei: Scorpaenidae) in Tunisia. Les Cahier de Biologie Marine 60(4): 381-386. DOI: 10.21411/CBM.A.6E50EFE

Guerreiro, I, Magalhães, R, Coutinho, F, Couto, A, Sousa, S, Delerue-Matos, C, Domingues, VF, Oliva-Teles, A, Peres, H. 2018. Evaluation of Chondrus crispus and Ulva lactuca as functional ingredients in gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata). Journal of Applied Phycology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10811-018-1708-7

Gorito, AM, Ribeiro, AR, Rocha Gomes, C, Almeida, CMR, Silva, AMT. 2018. Constructed wetland microcosms for removal of organic micropollutants from freshwater aquaculture effluents. Science of the Total Environment 644, 1171-1180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.371

Lobo, G, Pereira, LF, Gonçalves, JFM, Peixoto, MJ, Ozório, ROA. 2018. Effect of dietary seaweed supplementation on growth performance, antioxidant and immune responses in European seabass subjected to rearing temperature and salinity oscillations. International Aquatic Research 10, 321–331. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40071-018-0208-3

Lourenço, S, Valente, LMP, Andrade, C. 2018. Meta‐analysis on nutrition studies modulating sea urchin roe growth, colour and taste. Reviews in Aquaculture 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1111/raq.12256

Magalhães, R, Martins, N, Martins, S, Lopes, T, Diáz-Rosales, P, Oliva-Teles, A, Peres, H. 2018.. Is dietary Taurine supplementation required for White seabream (Diplodus sargus) juveniles?. Aquaculture 502, 296-502.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2018.12.019

Martins, N, Estevão-Rodrigues, T, Diógenes, AF, Diaz-Rosales, P, Oliva-Teles, A, Peres, H. 2018. Taurine requirement for growth and nitrogen accretion of European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax, L.) juveniles. Aquaculture 494, 19-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2018.05.007

Moutinho, S, Linares, F, Rodríguez, JL, Sousa, V, Valente, LMP. 2018. Inclusion of 10% seaweed meal in diets for juvenile and on-growing life stages of Senegalese sole (Solea senegalensis). J Appl Phycol 30, 3589–3601. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10811-018-1482-6

Peixoto, MJ, Magnoni, LJ, Gonçalves, JFM, Twijnstra, RH, Kijjoa, A, Pereira, R, Palstra, AP, Ozório, ROA. 2018. Effects of dietary supplementation of Gracilaria sp. extracts on fillet quality, oxidative stress and immune responses in European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax). Journal of Applied Phycology 31, 761–770. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10811-018-1519-x

Peixoto, MJ, Domingues, A, Batista, S, Gonçalves, JFM, Gomes, AM, Valente, LMP, Costas, B, Ozório, ROA. 2018. Physiological responses of sole (Solea senegalensis) subjected to bacterial infection and handling stress after dietary probiotic treatment. Fish and Shellfish Immunology 83, 348-358. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsi.2018.09.045

Pereira, TR, Azevedo, IC, Oliveira, P, Silva, DM, Sousa-Pinto, I. 2019. Life history traits of Laminaria ochroleuca in Portugal: The range-center of its geographical distribution. Aquatic Botany, 152, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquabot.2018.09.002

Piñeiro-Corbeira, C, Barreiro, R, Cremades, J, Arenas, F. 2018. Seaweed assemblages under a climate change scenario: Functional responses to temperature of eight intertidal seaweeds match recent abundance shifts. Scientific Reports 8 (1), 12978. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-31357-x

Rato, A, Joaquim, S, Tavares, TG, Martins, ZE, Guedes, AC, Pereira, L, Machado, J, Matias, AM, Gonçalves, JFM, Vaz-Pires, P, Magnoni, LJ, Ozório, ROA, Matias, D. 2018. Viability of dietary substitution of live microalgae with dry Ulva rigida in broodstock conditioning of Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas). Biology Open bio.035923. https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.035923

Rocha, AC, Camacho, C, Eljarrat, E, Peris, A, Aminot, Y, Readman, JW, Boti, V, Nannou, C, Marques, A, Nunes, ML, Almeida, CMR. 2018. Bioaccumulation of persistent and emerging pollutants in wild sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus. Environmental Research 161, 354-363. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2017.11.029

Rocha, F, Baiao, LF, Moutinho, S, Reis, B, Oliveira, A, Arenas, F, Maia, MRG, Fonseca, AJM, Pintado, M, Valente, LMP. 2019. The effect of sex, season and gametogenic cycle on gonad yield, biochemical composition and quality traits of Paracentrotus lividus along the North Atlantic coast of Portugal. Sci Rep. 9, 2994. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39912-w

Rocha, F, Rocha, AC, Baião, LF, Gadelha, J, Camacho, C, Carvalho, ML, Arenas, F, Oliveira, A, Maia, MRG, Cabrita, AR, Pintado, M, Nunes, ML, Almeida, CM, Valente, LMP. 2019. Seasonal effect in nutritional quality and safety of the wild sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus harvested in the European Atlantic shores. Food Chemistry 282: 84-94. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2018.12.097

Rocha, S, Rangel, LF, Castro, R, Severino, R, Azevedo, C, Santos, MJ, Casal, G. 2016. Ultrastructure and phylogeny of Ceratomyxa diplodae (Myxosporea: Ceratomyxidae), from the gall bladder of the European seabass Dicentrarchus labrax. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 121, 117-128. https://doi.org/10.3354/dao03049

Rocha, S, Rangel, L, Castro, R, Severino, R, Azevedo, C, Santos, MJ, Casal, G. 2019. The potential role of the sphaeractinomyxon collective group (Cnidaria, Myxozoa) in the life cycle of mugiliform-infecting myxobolids, with the morphological and molecular description of three new types from the oligochaete Tubificoides insularis. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 160, 33-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jip.2018.12.001

Santos, MJ, Castro, R, Cavaleiro, F, Rangel, L, Palm, HW. 2017. Comparison of anisakid infection levels between two species of Atlantic mackerel (Scomber colias and S. scombrus) off the Atlantic Portuguese coast. Scientia Marina 81 (2), 179-185. https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.04552.26A

Sirin, C, Santos, MJ, Rangel, LF. 2018. Morphological and molecular analyses of Bipteria lusitanica n. sp in wild white seabream, Diplodus sargus (Linnaeus, 1758) in Portugal. Parasitology Research 117, 2035.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-018-5865-z

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