Domestication compromises athleticism and respiratory plasticity in response to aerobic exercise training in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

• Published in: Aquaculture Vol. 463; pp. 79 - 88
• Main Authors: Zhang, Yangfan, Timmerhaus, Gerrit, Anttila, Katja, Mauduit, Florian, Jørgensen, Sven Martin, Kristensen, Torstein, Claireaux, Guy, Takle, Harald, Farrell, Anthony P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.10.2016; Elsevier Sequoia S.A; Elsevier
• Subjects: Aquaculture; Athletic robustness; Atlantic salmon; Biodiversity and Ecology; Brackish; citrate (si)-synthase; Domestication; Environmental Sciences; exercise; Exercise training; Genotype & phenotype; hatcheries; Hypoxia; Hypoxia tolerance; lactate dehydrogenase; Marine; metabolism; muscles; Oxygen; oxygen consumption; parr; phenotype; physiologists; professionals; rearing; Respiratory performance; Salmo salar; Salmon; screening; seawater; selection methods; Selective breeding; smolts; survival rate; swimming; water currents; wild fish; ANE, Norway; Athletic robustness; Domestication; Atlantic salmon; Exercise training; Respiratory performance; Hypoxia tolerance; ACL; atlantic salmon

Commercially selective breeding of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) primarily for rapid growth may compromise cardiorespiratory robustness and its related phenotypes. Therefore, a suite of respiratory indices was used to evaluate aerobic capacity and hypoxia tolerance to test the hypothesis that exerci...