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Project code: 1-08-115


PATHOLOGY, GENETICS AND NUTRITION IN AQUATIC ORGANISMS


Main researcher: TESKEREDŽIĆ, EMIN (49394)



Assistants
Type of research: applied
Duration from: 01/01/91. to 12/31/95.

Papers on project (total): 62
Papers on project quoted in Current Contents: 5
Institution name: Institut "Ruđer Bošković", Zagreb (98)
Department/Institute: Center for Marine Research Zagreb
Address: Bijenička 54
City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia
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Phone: 385 (1) 434-221
Fax: 385 (1) 434-221

Summary: Diseases of aquatic organisms represent an essential problem in the open and closed aquatic ecosystem. Fundamental and applied investgations of the diseases will focus on the biology and physiology of the bacteria, parasites, plankton and toxicants, also on their influence on the morbidity and mortality of juvenile and adult fish and shellfish. By establishing new methods of diagnostics, the time necessary for making a diagnosis would be made shorter and the efficiency of therapy would be stimulated. They would also help to gain the knowledge of the reservoirs of infection with cultured and natural stocks of aquatic organisms and would lead to the investigation of their sources in connection with biotechnological procedures during the culture and the stress in the environment, respectively. Investigation would also include reproduction, biotechnology and nutrition of autochthonous and alochthonous fish and shellfish as they represent possible stress danger and may induce pathological changes. Genetic engineering will stimulate obtaining the species, aquatic organisms resistant to different ecological conditions and diseases. This will be achieved by the use of specific and sensitive methods of controlled spawning, genetic techniques to obtain monosexual male/female and sterile population of aquatic organisms, respectively, which is an important method for preserving ecological particularities of an aquatic environment from human activities. New knowledge will be acquired for the exchange of expensive animal proteins by specially fermentized proteins of vegetable origin; also knowledge on prevention from the diseases due to alimentation defficiency. New methods for protection from the diseases of aquatic organisms will, in correlation with abiotic and biotic particularities of aquatic ecosystems, bring to the new knowledge in science how to preserve human health and environment.

Keywords: pathology, genetic, nutrition, fish, shellfish

Research goals: The objective of the investigation is to gain fundamental knowledge of the biology and eco-physiology of the diseases of aquatic organisms. to develop new methodologies in preventive and curative therapy of the juvenile and adult organisms diseases. To gain essential knowledge on the possibilities of genetic engineering in obtaining specimens and populations more resistant to the stress conditions and infective agenses, and to determine the possibilities of controlled rearing and induced spawning of autochthonous and alochthonous species. To determine essential nutritive needs of various species and age-cathegories of the fish. To obtain new aquaculturing technologies based on the basic principles of biological and physiological particularities of aquatic organisms and biological particularities of aquatic environment. It is expected to use the obtained fundamental and applied knowledge for the improvement of aquaculturing activities both in the security of continuous production on one hand and in providing healthy and safe products for human food on the other, along with preserving ecological equilibrium of the aquatorium. To prevent the possibility of zoonoses spreading by determining pathological changes and their consecutive danger for the humanity.


COOPERATION - PROJECTS


  1. Name of project: Biotechnology, genetics and nutrition in aquaculture
    Name of institution: Department of Fisheries and Oceans, West Vancouver Laboratory
    City: Vancouver, Kanada

  2. Name of project: Encymatic analysis of environmental pollution with teleosts
    Name of institution: University of Bradford, Department of Biomedical Science
    City: Bradford, Engleska


COOPERATION - INSTITUTIONS


  1. Name of institution: Kmetijski kombinat Ptuj
    Type of institution: Economical/Production
    Type of cooperation: Contract on joint investmant
    City: Ptuj, Slovenija

  2. Name of institution: Emona ribarstvo Ljubljana
    Type of institution: Economical/Production
    Type of cooperation: Contract on joint investmant
    City: Ljubljana, Slovenija

  3. Name of institution: Hrvatske sume, RJ Ribnjacarstvo Lipovljani
    Type of institution: Economical/Production
    Type of cooperation: Contract on joint investmant
    City: Lipovljani, Hrvatska

  4. Name of institution: Ribokombinat Siscani, Cazma
    Type of institution: Economical/Production
    Type of cooperation: Contract on joint investmant
    City: Cazma, Hrvatska

  5. Name of institution: RO Zagrepcanka, Zagreb
    Type of institution: Economical/Production
    Type of cooperation: Contract on joint investmant
    City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia

  6. Name of institution: Poljoprivreda, d.d. Zagreb
    Type of institution: Economical/Production
    Type of cooperation: Contract on joint investmant
    City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia

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