Souza, Rafael José Furtado
Matos, Edilson Rodrigues http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9918-1408
da Silva Souza, Aldry Lorran http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6716-6660
Fazzi-Gomes, Paola Fabiana http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2056-1561
de Melo, Nuno Filipe Alves Correia http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4163-4133
Owatari, Marco Shizuo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-222X
Palheta, Glauber David Almeida http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8032-8377
Takata, Rodrigo http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3385-6895
Sterzelecki, Fabio Carneiro http://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. CitationRef removed) and euthanized by spinal cord transection.