Anais Boglino

• PhD in Aquaculture
• Researcher at Centro Nayarita de Inovación y Tecnología

Cortisol is the main corticosteroid hormone involved in the regulation of stress status in teleost fish and a recognized biomarker of stress, whose plasma concentration increases significantly in response to a perceived hazard situation. Traditional methods to quantify cortisol levels are usually performed through blood extraction, but this approac...

Latin America (LATAM) plays an important role in the world's production of aquatic animals and is the second most productive region in the world. Chile, Ecuador, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and Perú contribute 87% of LATAM aquaculture production. The fish welfare in aquaculture is of increasing public concern globally, and LATAM is no exception, grow...

Stress coping styles (SCS) are defined as a coherent set of individual physiological and behavioural differences in stress responses that are consistent across context and over time. Nowadays, an increased attention has been paid to fish welfare in aquaculture production and to consistent behavioural response to stress in captivity, since these asp...

Identifying Stress Coping Styles (SCS) in new species of interest for aquaculture has important implications for its future domestication and adaptation to captivity. Individual variability allows to select the potential positive characteristics for fish production. The main aim of this study was to identify phenotypic individual differences and ch...

Aim of study: To describe the common behaviour of flathead grey mullet (Mugil cephalus) under rearing conditions. Area of study: Tepic, Mexico. Material and methods: Behaviours exhibited by mullets were videorecorded with submersible cameras installed inside of three tanks. A total of 690 min per day (07:30 - 18:30 h) were recorded per tank durin...

The genus Amphiprion , which species are typically known as clownfish or anemone fish, are among the most commercialized marine ornamental fish species in the world. The present study evaluated three commercial aquaculture diets (A = 40% protein and 9% of crude fat, B = 45% protein and 14% of crude fat, C = 38% protein and 6% of crude fat) on the g...

This research described the common behaviour of grey mullet (Mugil cephalus) under rearing conditions. The different behaviours exhibited by mullets were videorecorded with submersible cameras installed inside of three tanks. A total of 690 minutes per day (07:30-18:30 hours) were recorded per tank during a week. Afterwards, an ethogram was elabora...

A nivel mundial, se está evaluando el bienestar en peces, mediante técnicas no invasivas como el monitoreo del comportamiento por videograbaciones y la respuesta a situaciones generando un estrés en los animales o EAE. Este documento revisa los principios y métodos básicos y más comunes utilizados en acuicultura para evaluar los EAE y su impacto so...

En esta investigación, se estudió el comportamiento habitual de juveniles de lisa adaptados al cautiverio, el cual se clasificó en una categoría de “actividad” con cuatro patrones comportamentales (descanso, normal, alta y frotar) y una categoría de “alimentación” (fondo y superficie).

Individuals differ in how they cope with stressful situations along a behavioural continuum, being proactive and reactive at the extremes of this continuum. Proactive individuals are usually bold, highly active and take risks, while reactive organisms are generally shy, exhibit low activity and avoid risky situations. Definitions of stress coping s...

The aim of this study was the characterization of transcriptional regulatory pathways mediated by retinoic acid (RA) in Senegalese sole larvae. For this purpose, pre-metamorphic larvae were treated with a low concentration of DEAB, an inhibitor of RALDH enzyme, until the end of metamorphosis. No differences in growth, eye migration or survival were...

High dietary levels of arachidonic acid (ARA) and its relative proportions with eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), fed during early larval stages, have been associated with malpigmentation in various flatfish species. This study investigated whether the nutritional induction of pigmentary disorders at larval stages was related to a specific larval period...

Flatfish can provide a reliable model to study developmental disorders in bone tissues occurring during morphogenesis in response to nutritional imbalances. To date, most studies dealing with the effect of dietary essential fatty acids (EFA) on skeletogenesis in fish have focused their investigation on the role of docohexanoic (22:6n−3, DHA) and ei...

In this study we evaluated the effects of high dietary arachidonic acid (ARA) levels on prostaglandin E-2 (PGE(2)) and E-3 (PGE(3)) production and their effect on two morphogenetic processes occurring during metamorphosis: the establishment of the juvenile pigmentation pattern and eye migration and remodeling of cranial bones. In this sense, Senega...

Fish tissues, particularly rich in n-3 PUFA, are prone to lipid peroxidation that can damage cellular membranes, cause severe lesions and subsequently incidences of disease and mortality. However, fish possess antioxidant defences, such as vitamin E (VE) and antioxidant enzymes, to protect them against oxidative damage. This study investigated the...

The effect of high dietary levels of arachidonic acid (ARA) on the eye migration and cranial bone remodelling processes in Senegalese sole Solea senegalensis early juveniles (age: 50 days post hatch) was evaluated by means of geometric morphometric analysis and alizarin red staining of cranial skeletal elements. The incidence of normally pigmented...

The appearance of the pseudo-albino phenotype was investigated in developing Senegalese sole (Solea senegalensis, Kaup 1858) larvae at morphological and molecular levels. In order to induce the development of pseudo-albinos, Senegalese sole larvae were fed Artemia enriched with high levels of arachidonic acid (ARA). The development of their skin pi...

Abnormal pigmentation of Senegalese sole has been described as one problem facing the full exploitation of its commercial production. To improve our understanding of flatfish pigmentation of this commercially important species we have evaluated eleven genes related to two different processes of pigmentation: melanophore differentiation, and melanin...

The effect of high dietary levels of arachidonic acid (ARA) on the eye migration and cranial bone remodelling processes in Senegalese sole Solea senegalensis early juveniles (age: 50 days post hatch) was evaluated by means of geometric morphometric analysis and alizarin red staining of cranial skeletal elements. The incidence of normally pigmented...

To improve the understanding of the incidence of skeletal deformities in Senegalese sole (Solea senegalensis), a feeding trial was carried out to evaluate the effect of increasing dietary arachidonic acid (ARA) levels during the Artemia feeding period on larval growth and skeletogenesis. Larvae were fed from 8 to 50 days post hatching (dph) with Ar...

How lipid content and composition in the diet is utilized by the various organs and tissues of fish is reflected in their structure, such as the intestine through which dietary lipids are digested and absorbed, the vascular system which is involved in their transport, and the liver where lipids are stored and metabolized. However, no study has been...

The present study aimed to deepen the understanding of molecular mechanisms governing the absorption and metabolism of some nutrients, growth and development in larvae of Senegalese sole (Solea senegalensis) fed with Artemia enriched with Easy Selco (ES, INVE) or Aquagrow Gold (AGG, ABN), which mainly differed in their vitamin A (VA) content and fa...

Proper nutrition at first feeding in marine fish larvae is an important factor for successful larval rearing. However, live prey used to feed marine finfish larvae lack essential fatty acids requiring commercial hatcheries to enrich live prey to provide a balanced diet. Currently, the many commercially available enrichments for live prey present co...

The g-type lysozyme is a key protein of the innate immune system to fight bacterial infections. In this study we cloned and characterized the gene encoding for g-type lysozyme in Senegalese sole (Solea senegalensis). The deduced amino acid sequence comprised 195 residues containing the three conserved catalytic residues and two cysteines. A BAC ana...