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The well-being, feeding habits and energetic and plasmatic parameters of the notothenioids Notothenia rossii and Notothenia coriiceps were assessed in specimens collected at a depth of up to 25 m in the Admiralty Bay region, King George Island, Antarctic Peninsula. The population structure of N. rossii (n = 221) was composed of juveniles, and that of N. coriiceps (n = 151) was composed of adults. The greatest mean length and weight measurements of N. coriiceps may be related to warming waters in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Salps were the dominant item in the diet of both species responsible for high protein quantity item found in muscle tissues and liver. The krill and amphipods were an important food item and related to lipid reserves. Among the indices evaluated, greater variation was observed in the hepatosomatic index of N. coriiceps and was related to the greater sizes and ages attained by this species. The liver and muscle energetic components showed great variability between different months may be related by the variability in diet. The plasma components did not exhibit seasonal patterns but displayed large monthly variation. Long-term analysis of the biological parameters evaluated in this study should be continued to monitor the species present in Admiralty Bay, a region with great biological diversity.
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We are grateful to the following for their support: Brazilian Ministry of Environment (MMA), Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), National Council for the Development of Scientific and Technological Research (CNPq), Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES) and the Secretariat of the Inter‐ministerial Commission for the Resources of the Sea (SeCIRM). The authors would like to thank Edith Susana Elisabeth Fanta (in memoriam), coordinator of the projects Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic: The response of life to change (EBA), and Yocie Yoneshigue Valentin, coordinator of the National Institute of Antarctic Science and Technology of Environmental Research (INCT APA), for all the help and incentive given during execution of the present work. The study was supported by CAPES, CNPq and FAPERJ through the projects PNPD (CAPES Process Auxpe No. 2443/2011 and 2985/2010), EBA (MCTI/CNPq Process No. 52.0125/2008‐8, International Polar Year), Productivity in Research granted to L. Donatti (CNPq. Process No. 305562/2009-6 and 305969/2012-9) and INCT‐APA (CNPq Process No. 574018/2008‐5, FAPERJ E‐26/170.023/2008).
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Raga, G., Pichler, H.A., Zaleski, T. et al. Ecological and physiological aspects of the antarctic fishes Notothenia rossii and Notothenia coriiceps in Admiralty Bay, Antarctic Peninsula. Environ Biol Fish 98, 775–788 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-014-0311-2
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