Taurine is a sulfonic acid found in high concentrations in animal tissues. In recent years, a
number of studies have demonstrated the essentiality of dietary taurine for many …

Despite considerable progress in recent years, many questions regarding fish larval nutrition
remain largely unanswered, and several research avenues remain open. A holistic …

Despite the recent progress in the production of inert diets for fish larvae, feeding of most
species of interest for aquaculture still relies on live feeds during the early life stages …

Until recently, it was considered impossible to feed newly hatched marine fish species with a
compound diet. Substituting a compound diet for live prey was performed several weeks …

Marine fish larvae undergo major functional and morphological changes during the
developmental stages and several factors can interfere with the normal development of …

To increase current knowledge on the nutritional value of natural prey organisms, the
biochemical components of mainly three copepods (Acartia grani, Centropages hamatus …

This important and informative new book outlines and discusses details of the basic
principles and methods that are central to any study of fish condition, from a fish ecology and …

Enhanced production of high quality and healthy fry is a key target for a successful and
competitive expansion of the aquaculture industry. Although large quantities of fish larvae …

Copepods are important crustaceans studied because of their key role in ecology, trophic
biology, fisheries management, in modeling the flow of energy and matter, ecotoxicology …

The ontogeny of the digestive tract of marine fish larvae has been the subject of numerous
studies in the previous two decades. Beyond the scientific interest for such animal species …