FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Individual growth monitoring of European sea bass larvae by image analysis and microsatellite genotyping BT AF DE VERDAL, Hugues VANDEPUTTE, Marc PEPEY, Elodie VIDAL, Marie-Odile CHATAIN, Beatrice AS 1:1,2;2:3,4;3:1;4:3;5:3; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:PDG-RBE-BOME-LALR;5:PDG-RBE-BOME-LALR; C1 CIRAD, INTREPID UMR 110, F-34398 Montpellier 5, France. WorldFish, Bayan Lepas 11960, Penang, Malaysia. IFREMER, INTREPID UMR 110, F-34250 Palavas Les Flots, France. INRA, UMR Genet Anim & Biol Integrat 1313, F-78350 Jouy En Josas, France. C2 CIRAD, FRANCE WORLDFISH, MALAYSIA IFREMER, FRANCE INRA, FRANCE SI PALAVAS SE PDG-RBE-BOME-LALR IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018 copubli-france copubli-p187 copubli-int-hors-europe copubli-sud IF 1.878 TC 9 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00211/32195/30748.pdf LA English DT Article DE ;Individual identification;Image analysis;Body weight;Surface area;Perimeter;European sea bass larvae AB The aims of the present study were to develop non-lethal methods to identify individual fish larvae and post-larvae before tagging and accurately follow their growth characteristics. European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) was used as a model species at four different ages ranging from 71 to 100 days post fertilization (dpf). Two different methods were tested for non-lethal tissue sampling from each larva for DNA analysis: 1) using a sterile absorbent paper to sample mucus and/or epithelial cells by rubbing the fish skin and 2) fin-clip of the bottom part of the caudal fin. Whatever the age of the larvae, the genotyping rate (at 12 microsatellite markers) was low with the use of sterile absorbent paper but relatively high with fin-clip sampling at 80 and 87 dpf (on average 17 and 63% of the loci genotyped for sterile paper and fin clips, respectively). Several measurements were performed on digital pictures of sea bass larvae to model body weight. Using area, perimeter, length, height and volume, it was possible to estimate body weight with a coefficient of determination r2 = 0.98 on very small larvae (body weight ranging from 20.0 to 419.3 mg). The present results suggested that individual monitoring of the growth of European sea bass larvae can be achieved by combining image analysis and microsatellite genotyping as early as 87 dpf or 236 mg mean body weight. PY 2014 PD OCT SO Aquaculture SN 0044-8486 PU Elsevier Science Bv VL 434 UT 000345058700065 BP 470 EP 475 DI 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2014.09.012 ID 32195 ER EF