Cobia exhibits a permanent gastric acidity as digestion strategy

Póster presentado en el Aquaculture Europe 16 (Food for Thought), celebrado en Edimburgo del 20 al 23 de septiembre de 2016.This study examines the postprandial pH changes in the digestive tract of Cobia juveniles reared at 30° and 34° C. Cobia juveniles maintain a gastric luminal pH close to 4 throughout the day. A slight increase occurred after feeding due to the buffering and dilution effect of the ingested food and drinked sea water. In the intestine the luminal pH increased after the first meal and declines to neutral values by the end of the day. Higher alkalinization was observed in the intestine at 34° than at 30° C.Financed by Project WISEFEED funded by the EU H2020 programme (Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant No 691150). Additional funding from Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation NORHED, No. QZA-0485 SRV-13/0010, and MINECO Spain, project EFISHDIGEST AGL2014-52888-R. S Engrola acknowledges a FCT investigator grant IF/00482/2014/CP1217/CT0005 funded by the European Social Fund, the Operational Programme Human Potential and the Foundation for Science and Technology of Portugal-FCT.Peer Reviewe