Vera L. A. Vieira

TL;DR: It was hypothesised that the higher average values of firmness in the wild than farmed salmon flesh can in part be attributed to higher concentrations of reducible immature collagen crosslinks, which are thought to be enriched with reducible and non-reducible cross-linked collagen.

TL;DR: The influence of embryonic and larval temperature regime on muscle growth was investigated in Atlantic herring and showed that, for both stocks, the temperature of embryonic development influenced the subsequent rate of muscle fibre recruitment and hypertrophy as well as the density of muscle nuclei.

TL;DR: Estimates of trait values at nodes of the maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree were consistent with a progressive reduction in fibre number during part of the notothenioid radiation, perhaps serving to reduce basal energy requirements to compensate for the additional energetic costs of antifreeze production.

TL;DR: The timing of myogenesis with respect to somite stage and the initial appearance of the gut, pectoral fin buds and pronephric tubules was found to vary with development temperature, and cell proliferation experiments showed that another population of myoblasts was activated on the surface of muscle fibres just prior to hatching.

TL;DR: There is an optimal fibre size, and hence number, which varies with maximum body size and reflects a trade-off between diffusional constraints on fibre diameter and the energy costs of maintaining ionic gradients, and its consequences for the adaptive evolution of muscle architecture in fishes are discussed.