Welfare Indicators in Tilapia: An Epidemiological Approach.

Interest and concern about rearing methods and their impact on animal welfare have increased. Production evaluation is population-based, and animal welfare analysis should be similar. In fish, the most common welfare indicators are gill state, fin damage, and body condition.

Digestive Physiology of and : Temporality of Digestion and Assimilation Processes.

Digestive physiology is one of the bottlenecks of octopus aquaculture. Although, there are successful experimentally formulated feeds, knowledge of the digestive physiology of cephalopods is fragmented, and focused mainly on . Considering that the digestive physiology could vary in tropical and sub-tropical species through temperature modulations of the digestive dynamics and nutritional requirements of different organisms, the present review was focused on the digestive physiology timing of and , two promising aquaculture species living in tropical (22-30°C) and sub-tropical (15-24°C) ecosystems, respectively.