Souza, Rafael José Furtado
Matos, Edilson Rodrigues https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9918-1408
da Silva Souza, Aldry Lorran https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6716-6660
Fazzi-Gomes, Paola Fabiana https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2056-1561
de Melo, Nuno Filipe Alves Correia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4163-4133
Owatari, Marco Shizuo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-222X
Palheta, Glauber David Almeida https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8032-8377
Takata, Rodrigo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3385-6895
Sterzelecki, Fabio Carneiro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4094-4693
Funding for this research was provided by:
Programa Nacional de Cooperação Acadêmica na Amazônia - PROCAD (40221741291, public notice n° 21/2018, project nº 88887.200588/2018-00.)
Article History
Received: 15 September 2023
Accepted: 5 December 2023
First Online: 11 December 2023
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
: This research was approved by the Ethics Committee on Animal Use (CEUA) of the Federal Rural University of Amazon - UFRA, Belem, Brazil, protocol number 9354190820. The Juvenile tambaqui used in the study were purchased from a commercial fish farm located in Rondônia - Brazil and remained at the Sustainable Aquaculture Laboratory at UFRA for 10 days to acclimatize to the experimental conditions. All fish used in biological analyses were previously anesthetized with Eugenol (65 mg L<sup>– 1</sup>) (Roubach et al. ) and euthanized by spinal cord transection.