An international team of researchers, which involved Portuguese scientists, has succeeded in sequencing the seabass genome, identifying a genetic basis of adaptation to salinity and differentiation of the Mediterranean and Atlantic populations.
Researchers at the Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR) of the University of Algarve, along with scientists from the Institute of Molecular Biology Max Planck in Berlin, the Centre for Genomics of Cologne (Germany) and the University of Montpellier (France), managed to sequence and decode the genome of seabass. This made it possible to learn more about its past and to determine that the populations of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean began to diverge around 270,000 years ago.
The European seabass (Dicentrachus labrax) is distributed along the Northwest Atl...
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