National Center for Mariculture Amos Tandler tandler@ocean.org.il Tel: 08 – 6361420 ext. 36 Senior Scientist Ph.D. 1978, University of Guelph, Canada At IOLR since 1978

Research interests:
Studies on marine fish larval physiology and nutrition. Emphasis on the development of microdiets. An incubator company (FeedPro) is presently in its second year of development of the NCM microdiet. Present activity is in the area of environmental and nutritional cues for malformation and sex determination at the early larval stages.

Selected publications:
Koven, W., van Anholt, R., Lutzky, S., Ben Atia, I., Nixon, O., Ron B. and Tandler, A.
(2003). The effect of dietary arachidonic acid on growth, survival, and cortisol levels in different-age gilthead seabream larvae (Sparus aurata) exposed to handling or daily salinity change. Aquaculture 228:307-320.

Hadas, E., Koven, W., Sklan, D. and Tandler, A. (2003). The effect of dietary phosphatidylcholine on the assimilation and distribution of ingested free oleic acid (18:1n-9) in gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata) larvae. Aquaculture 217:577-588.

Koven, W., Rojas-Garcia, C.R., Finn, R.N., Tandler, A. and Ronnestad, I. (2002). Stimulatory effect of ingested protein and/or free amino acids on the secretion of the gastro-endocrine hormone cholecystokinin and on tryptic activity, in ealy-feeding herring larvae, Clupea harengus. Mar. Biol. 140:1241-1247.

Koven, W., Kolkovski, S., Hadas, E., Gamsiz, K. and Tandler, A. (2001). Advances in the development of microdiets for gilthead seabream, Sparus aurata: A review. Aquaculture 194:107-121.

Koven, W., Barr, Y., Lutzky, S., Ben Atia, I., Weiss, R., Harel, M., Behrens, P. and Tandler, A. (2001). The effect of dietary arachidonic acid (20:4n-6) on growth, survival and resistance to handling stress in the larvae of gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata). Aquaculture 193:107-122.

Kissil, G.Wm., Tandler, A., Colorni, A. and Elizur, A. (2000). Seabass culture. In: Stickney, R.R. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Aquaculture, John Wiley and Sons, New York, pp. 778-784.

Kissil, G.Wm, Tandler, A., Elizur, A., Colorni, A. and Zohar, Y. (2000). Gilthead Sea bream culture. In: Stickney, R.R. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Aquaculture, John Wiley and Sons, New York, pp. 408-418.