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Title: Physiological trade-offs associated with fasting weight loss, resistance to exercise and behavioral traits in farmed gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) selected by growth
Authors: Perera, Erick
Rosell-Moll, Enrique
Martos-Sitcha, Juan Antonio
Naya-Català, Fernando
Simó-Mirabet, Paula
Calduch-Giner, Josep
Manchado, Manuel
Afonso López, Juan Manuel 
Pérez-Sánchez, Jaume
UNESCO Clasification: 310902 Genética
251092 Acuicultura marina
Keywords: Critical Speed
Fasting Weight Loss
Free-Swimming Behavior
Growth Selection
Maximum Metabolic Rate
Issue Date: 2021
Journal: Aquaculture Reports 
Abstract: Three gilthead sea bream families representative of slow, intermediate and fast heritable growth in the Spanish PROGENSA® selection program were used to uncover the effects of such selection on energy partitioning through measurements of fasting weight loss, swimming performance and behavioral traits in one- and two-year-old fish. Firstly, selection for fast growth significantly increased fasting weight loss and decreased the hormonal ratio of circulating Igf-i/Gh in short-term fasting fish (17 days). This is indicative of a stronger negative energy balance that explains the reduced compensatory growth of fast-growing fish during the subsequent short-term refeeding period (7 days). Selection for fast growth also decreased the critical speed (Ucrit, 6–7 BL s−1) at which fish become exhausted in a swim tunnel respirometer. The maximum metabolic rate (MMR), defined as the maximum rate of oxygen consumption during forced exercise, was almost equal in all fish families though the peak was achieved at a lowest speed in the fast-growing family. Since circulating levels of lactate were also slightly decreased in free-swimming fish of this family group, it appears likely that the relative energy contribution of anaerobic metabolism to physical activity was lowered in genetically fast-growing fish. Selection for heritable growth also altered activity behavior because slow-growing families displayed an anticipatory food response associated with more pronounced daily rhythms of physical activity. Also, respiratory frequency and body weight showed and opposite correlation in slow- and fast-growing free-swimming fish as part of the complex trade-offs of growth, behavior and energy metabolism. Altogether, these results indicate that selective breeding for fast growth might limit the anaerobic fitness that would help to cope with limited oxygen availability in a scenario of climate change.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/78009
DOI: 10.1016/j.aqrep.2021.100645
Source: Aquaculture Reports [EISSN 2352-5134], v. 20, (Julio 2021)
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