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- Title
Fish Size Correlates to Size and Morphology of Intermuscular Bones in Tambaqui Colossoma macropomum as Shown by Dissection and X-ray Imaging Methods.
- Authors
Oliveira, Naislan F. A.; Torati, Lucas S.; Borin-Carvalho, Luciana A.; de Lima, Leandro K. F.; Puvanendran, Velmurugu; Demiciano, Thaís H.; da Silva, José J. T.; Barroso, Aurisan da S.; Varela, Eduardo S.
- Abstract
One of the main issues in the processing sector of the tambaqui Colossoma macropomum is the removal and/or fragmentation of intermuscular bones (IBs), which negatively impacts its production chain. In this sense, we quantitatively examined the IB variation in farmed tambaqui (n = 127) by comparing the direct anatomical dissection with the high-resolution X-ray imaging method. The number of IBs from the anatomical dissection on the left side of the fish (27.3 ± 5.70 bones) was comparable to that of X-ray analysis (26.9 ± 6.03 bones) (p > 0.05). In addition, 76% of deviation in IB number between the two studied methods was one to three, indicating both methods are equally efficient for identifying and quantifying IBs. We found a strong positive correlation (R = 0.8, p < 0.001) between the X-ray and the dissection methods. Our predictive models indicated that more than 50% of variation in IB length can be explained by growth parameters. Our results demonstrated that the X-ray method can provide accurate phenotypic data (in vivo) for IB counting and length measurements by extrapolating from the standard length, body weight and trunk over axis area of tambaqui.
- Subjects
SIZE of fishes; TAMBAQUI; X-ray imaging; DISSECTION; LENGTH measurement; FISH locomotion
- Publication
Fishes (MDPI AG), 2023, Vol 8, Issue 4, p180
- ISSN
2410-3888
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/fishes8040180