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Title: Trophic, Chemo-Ecological and Sex-Specific Insights on the Relation Between Diplodus sargus (Linnaeus, 1758) and the Invasive Caulerpa cylindracea (Sonder, 1845)
Authors: Miccoli, Andrea 
Mancini, Emanuele
Boschi, Marco
Provenza, Francesca
Lelli, Veronica
Tiralongo, Francesco
Renzi, Monia
Terlizzi, Antonio
Bonamano, Simone 
Marcelli, Marco 
Journal: FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE 
Issue Date: 2021
Abstract: 
Biological invasions result in negative and unpredictable impacts on oceans worldwide. Non-indigenous macrophytes often synthesize secondary metabolites for defensive purposes and increased competition efficiency: this is the case of Caulerpa cylindracea, which has entered the Mediterranean Sea in 1990 and competed against local flora and fauna since. It was demonstrated that the white seabream Diplodus sargus (i) has included the algae into its diet, (ii) is subject to the peculiar Abnormally Tough Specimen (ATS) condition post-cooking, and (iii) suffers physiological and behavioral disturbances from caulerpin, one of the three major algal secondary metabolites. This paper confirms a feeding relationship between the fish and the algae, quantifies caulerpin accumulation in the liver, suggests a possible mollusk- and echinoderm-driven biomagnification, and highlights the fact that all ATS specimens were males. Multivariate analyses on a
multi-biomarker panel reveals differential correlations to key cellular processes such as oxidative stress, metabolism, neurotoxicity, and lipid peroxidation as well as to condition indexes.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2067/43505
ISSN: 2296-7745
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2021.680787
Rights: Attribution 3.0 United States
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