Improving farming techniques of marine organisms

Keywords

Bacteria / Culture Collection / Mutant Collection / Invertebrates / Cell Lines / marine macro / Microorganisms / marine organisms / Vertebrates / Invertebrates / Virus /

Expertise

Development of expertise and research in biology is based on the provision of organisms grown under controlled ex situ conditions. Research and development activities EMBRC-France aim to improve cultivation techniques of various marine organisms and thus the quality of the resource for the benefit of the scientific community.

Studies conducted under EMBRC-France focus on the optimization of culture conditions, the seasonal adjustment of the breeding, cryopreservation, but also the methods of transporting a wide variety of organisms.

Among all the studied model organisms include sea urchin (Paracentrotus), cuttlefish (Sepia), ascidians (Ciona, Phallusia, Botryllus), Medusa (Clytia), amphioxus (Branchiostoma), dogfish (Scyliorhinus ) and variety of microorganisms (microalgae, bacteria).

Publications

• Murray, P.M., Moane, S., Collins, C., Beletskaya, T., Thomas, O.P., Duarte, A., Nobre, F., Owoyemi, I., Pagnocca, F., Sette, L.D., McHugh, E., Causse, E ., Pérez-López, P., Feijoo, G., Moreira, M.T., Rubiolo, J., Leirós, M., Botana, L., Pinteus, S., Alves, C., Horta, A., Pedrosa, R., Jeffreys, C., Agathos, S., Allewaert, C., Verween, A., Vyverman, W., Laptev, I ., Sineoky, S., Bisio, A., Manconi, R., Ledda, F., Marchi, M., Pronzato, R., Walsh, D. (2013).  Sustainable production of biologically active molecules of marine based origin. New Biotechnology 30 (6) :839-850.
• Pérez-López, P., Ternon, E., González-García, S., Genta-Jouve, G., Feijoo, G., Thomas, O.P., Moreira, M.T. (2014).  Environmental solutions for the sustainable production of bioactive natural products from the marine sponge Crambe crambe. Science of The Total Environment 475 : 71-82.
• Abida, H., Ruchaud, S., Rios, L., Humeau, A., Probert, I., De Vargas, C., Bach, S. & Bowler, C. (2013). Bioprospecting marine plankton. Marine Drugs 11: 4594-4611.
• Read, B., Kegel, J., Klute M.J., Kuo, A., Lefebvre, S.C., Mayer, C., Miller, J., Monier, A., Salamov, A., Young, J.R., Aguilar, M., Claverie, J.M., Frickenhaus, S., Gonzalez, K., Herman, E.K., Lin, Y-C., Napier, J., Ogata, H., Sarno, A.F., Shmutz, J., Schroeder, D., De Vargas, C., Verret, F., Von Dassow, P. et al.  (2013). Pan genome of the phytoplankton Emiliania underpins its global distribution. Nature 499 : 209-213.

Application sectors

BIOLOGY │HEALTH and NUTRITION │ECOLOGY  ENVIRONMENT │BIOTECHNOLOGIES │AQUACULTURE │AGRONOMICS