Molecular identification of whole squids and calamari at fairs and markets in regions of Latin America
Bianca Lima Paiva, Alan Erik Souza Rodrigues, Igor Oliveira de Freitas Almeida, Kamila de Fatima Silva, Manuel Haimovici, Unai Markaida, Patricia Charvet, Vicente Vieira Faria, Bruno B. Batista, Acácio Ribeiro Gomes Tomás, Luis Fernando da Silva Rodrigues-Filho, Jonathan Stuart Ready, João Bráullio · 2024
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Description
Bianca Paiva and co-authors used DNA to identify squids and calamari sold at fairs and markets across Latin America in 2024. Cephalopods are a growing fishery resource, but processing strips heads, arms, and skin or cuts bodies into rings, which erases the traits that name a species. That opens the door to swapping cheap species for prized ones.
Whole and processed samples came from supermarkets and directly from local fishers, with rough collection places noted. A large ribosomal gene region was sequenced for each sample and matched against references. The catalog byline is truncated at the end, so the work is framed as a team study. Readers get a market audit that checks what buyers actually get, species by species.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Bianca Lima Paiva, Alan Erik Souza Rodrigues, Igor Oliveira de Freitas Almeida, Kamila de Fatima Silva, Manuel Haimovici, Unai Markaida, Patricia Charvet, Vicente Vieira Faria, Bruno B. Batista, Acácio Ribeiro Gomes Tomás, Luis Fernando da Silva Rodrigues-Filho, Jonathan Stuart Ready, João Bráullio |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |