KEYNOTE TALK The importance of amphipods: from taxonomy to applications

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Event Abstract Back to Event KEYNOTE TALK The importance of amphipods: from taxonomy to applications Jose Manuel Guerra-García1* 1 University of Seville, Spain During the last years the annual rate of newly described amphipod species has significantly increased, including not only taxonomical information (both morphological and molecular) but also ecological and behavioural data. The active participation of amphipodologists in WoRMS is also remarkable. Important advances using amphipods as models in proteogenomic, transcriptomic and mitogenomic studies have been achieved throughout the last decade, and detailed studies dealing with invasive species, life histories, behaviour and trophic ecology have also been conducted. The progress in the use of amphipods as bioindicators and as resource in aquaculture is especially interesting. They have been used successfully in environmental programs for monitoring TBTs, heavy metals and organic pollution. Their high nutritional content (fatty acids omega 3 and proteins) makes them suitable as food for several species of commercial interest. Taking into account that they are mainly detritivorous, they have been proposed as elements of Integrate Multitrophic Aquaculture systems. Amphipods have also attracted the attention of different media during the last few years, and two amphipods, Liropus minusculus and Epimeria quasimodo have been among the top ten new species, in 2014 and 2018 respectively, selected from a total of ca. 15,000 species described annually. Despite the increasing interest in amphipod research, there is still a long way to go to understand and convey the importance of this group. Keywords: Amphipoda, Crustacea, Taxonomy, ecology & behavior, Bioindicator, Aquaculture Conference: XX Iberian Symposium on Marine Biology Studies (SIEBM XX) , Braga, Portugal, 9 Sep - 12 Sep, 2019. Presentation Type: Keynote talk Topic: Keynote lecture Citation: Guerra-García J (2019). KEYNOTE TALK The importance of amphipods: from taxonomy to applications. Front. Mar. Sci. Conference Abstract: XX Iberian Symposium on Marine Biology Studies (SIEBM XX) . doi: 10.3389/conf.fmars.2019.08.00003 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 02 Aug 2019; Published Online: 27 Sep 2019. * Correspondence: Dr. Jose Manuel Guerra-García, University of Seville, Seville, Spain, jmguerra@us.es Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Jose Manuel Guerra-García Google Jose Manuel Guerra-García Google Scholar Jose Manuel Guerra-García PubMed Jose Manuel Guerra-García Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.