INSTITUTE OF AQUACULTURE, UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING

Research discipline: Environmental / genetic control of fish puberty
Research purpose: Improvement of performance throughout the production cycles (broodstock management, larviculture and on-growing)
Description of research: Reproductive physiology and environmental control of reproduction and growth in marine finfish. Moelcular basis of the "photoperiodism" network focusing on the melatonin (light cascade) and clock gene (chronobiology) systems. The influence of genetics on fish performance and welfare.
Lead researcher(s): Dr.Hervé Migaud
Contact details: University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland. FK9 4LA.
Tel: +44 1786 473171
Website: www.stir.ac.uk