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Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to the staff of the Vasco da Gama’s Aquarium and of the Campelo Station/Quercus Team for their help in the maintenance and feeding of the fish; to Pedro Coelho, Cristina Lima and Fernando Roneberg for their help during fish captures; to Francisco Caruana for information on Spanish fish ex situ reproduction programs; and to Joana Robalo and André Levy for the revision of the manuscript. This study was funded by the FCT Pluriannual Program (UI&D 331/94, partially FEDER funded) and by the FCT project PTDC/AAC-CLI/103110/2008. C. Sousa-Santos was supported by a post-doctoral grant from FCT (SFRH/BPD/29774/2006).

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Sousa-Santos, C., Gil, F. & Almada, V.C. Ex situ reproduction of Portuguese endangered cyprinids in the context of their conservation. Ichthyol Res 61, 193–198 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-013-0383-6

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