Refereed papers

2002
Cifitci Y., Castilho R., McAndrew B.J. (2002) More polymorphic microsatellite markers in the European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) Molecular Ecology Notes 2: 574-576

2003
Tsigenopoulos C. S., Hellemans B., Chistiakov D.A., Libertini A., Kotoulas G., Volckaert F.A.M. (2003) Eleven new microsatellites of the sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.). Molecular Ecology Notes 3:352-354

2004
Chistiakov D.A., Hellemans B., Tsigenopoulos C. S., Law A.S., Bartley N., Bertotto D., Libertini A., Kotoulas G., Haley C.S., Volckaert F.A.M. (2004) Development and linkage relationships for new microsatellite markers of the sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.). Animal Genetics 35: 53 – 57

Francescon A., Libertini A., Bertotto D., Barbaro A. (2004) Shock timing in mitogynogenesis and tetraploidization of the European sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax. Aquaculture, 236: 201-209

Libertini A., Bertotto D. (2004) Una microtecnica per allestire campioni da singole larve di pesci teleostei per la diagnosi della ploidia tramite citometria a flusso. Lettere GIC, 13: 9-12

2005
Bertotto D., Cepollaro F., Libertini A., Barbaro A., Francescon A., Belvedere P., Barbaro J., Colombo L. (2005) Production of clonal founders in the European sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax L., by mitotic gynogenesis. Aquaculture, 246: 115-124

Chistiakov D.A., Hellemans B., Haley C.A., Law S.A., Tsigenopoulos C.S., Kotoulas G., Bertotto D., Volckaert F.A.M. (2005) A microsatellite linkage map of the European seabass Dicentrarchus labrax L. Genetics 170:1821-1826

Chistiakov D.A, Hellemans B., Volckaert F.A.M., Haley C.S., Law A.S., Taggart J.B., McAndrew B.J., Kotoulas G., Tsigenopoulos C., Batargias C., Chatziplis D., Georgoudis A., Libertinni A. (2005) BASSMAP: tools for the genetic improvement of sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.); construction and preliminary application of a medium density linkage and synteny map. Aquaculture 247: 9

Francescon A., Barbaro A., Bertotto D., Libertini A., Cepollaro F., Richard J., Belvedere P., Colombo L. (2005) Assessment of homozygosity and fertility in meiotic gynogens of the European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.). Aquaculture, 243: 93-102

2006
Chistiakov D.A., Hellemans B., Volckaert F.A.M. (2006) Microsatellites and their genomic distribution, evolution, function and applications: a review with special reference to fish genetics. Aquaculture 00: 00-00

Conference communications

2002
BASSMAP consortium (2002) A sea bass mapping project supported by the European Union. FAIP meeting, Paris, 14-15 March 2002.

Chatziplis D., Lyka K. (2002) A sib pair analysis method, for the detection of multiple QTL, using multiple regression. Proceedings of the 18th annual meeting of the Hellenic Society of Animal Production, Ioanna (Gr), June 2002

2003
Chistiakov, D.A., Hellemans, B., Tsigenopoulos, C., Libertini, A., Kotoulas, G., Volckaert, F.A.M. (2003) More microsatellite markers in the sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.). Third International Symposium on Ecological Genetics, Leuven (B), February 05-07, 2003

Chistiakov D.A. (2003) A microsatellite linkage map of the European sea bass. 3rd Belgian Bioinformatics Conference, Leuven (B) May 12, 2003

Chistiakov D.A., Hellemans B., Volckaert F.A.M., Haley C.S., Law A.S., Taggart J.B., McAndrew B.J., Kotoulas G., Tsigenopoulos C., Batargias C., Chatziplis D., Georgoudis A., Libertinni A. (2005) BASSMAP: tools for the genetic improvement of sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.); construction and preliminary application of a medium density linkage and synteny map. VIIIth meeting of the International Association for Genetics in Aquaculture, Puerto Varas, Chile, November 10-15, 2003

Libertini A., Bertotto D., Trisolini R. (2003) A method for flow cytometric assessment of ploidy in single early hatched larvae of marine teleost fish. Proceedings of the 20th National Conference of the Italian Society of Cytometry GIC, Spoleto, Italy, October 6-10, 2003, Eur. J. Histochem., 47, supp. 2: 8-9

Volckaert F. (2003) BASSMAP: a sea bass mapping project supported by the European Union. Farm Animal Industrial Platform project meeting, Paris (F), 14-15.02.03

Tsigenopoulos C., Volckaert F., Libertini A., Magoulas Α., Kotoulas G. (2003) Use of microsatellite markers for the genetic improvement of the sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) by means of the construction and application of a medium density linkage and synteny map. 7th Hellenic Symposium οn Oceanography & Fisheries, Hersonissos, Crete, 6-9 May 2003, p.173.

2004
Bertotto D., Libertini A., Francescon A., Barbaro A. (2004) Eleven years of experiments in chromosome set manipulation of the European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.). [Extended abstract] “Aquaculture-Europe 2004 - Biotechnologies for quality". Meeting of the European Aquaculture Society, Barcelona (Spain), October 20-23, 2004. EAS Special Publication no 34 p. 166-167

Volckaert F. (2004) New approaches to European sea bass breeding: integration of quantitative and molecular genetics. [Extended abstract] “Aquaculture-Europe 2004 - Biotechnologies for quality". Meeting of the European Aquaculture Society, Barcelona (Spain) October 20-23, 2004. EAS Special Publication no 34 p. 829-830

Volckaert F. for the BASSMAP Consortium (2004) First generation map of the European sea bass [Extended abstract]. “Aquaculture-Europe 2004 - Biotechnologies for quality". Meeting of the European Aquaculture Society, Barcelona (Spain). October 20-23, 2004. EAS Special Publication no 34 p. 827-828

2005
Volckaert F.A.M.J., Chistiakov D., Bart Hellemans , Tsigenopoulos C., Kotoulas G., McAndrew B.J., Helen A. Whitaker , Chris S. Haley , Law A., Batargias C., Georgoudis A., Chatziplis D., Libertini A. (2005) First generation linkage map of European sea bass. Plant and Animals Genomics Conference XI, January 17-19, 2005, San Diego (USA)

2006
Chatziplis D., Batargias C., Tsigenopoulos C., Magoulas A., Kollias S., Kotoulas G., Volckaert F.A.M. and Haley C.S.. (2006) Mapping Quantitative Trait Loci in European Sea Bass: the BASSMAP pilot study. IXth International Symposium for Genetics in Aquaculture, Montpellier (F), June 25-30, 2006 (submitted)

Volckaert F.A.M.J., Batargias C., Chatziplis D., Chistiakov D., Haley C.S., Hellemans B., Kotoulas G., Law A., Libertini A., McAndrew B.J., Tsigenopoulos C., H.A. Whitaker(2006) A second generation linkage map of European sea bass. IXth International Symposium for Genetics in Aquaculture, Montpellier (F), June 25-30, 2006 (submitted)

Volckaert F.A.M.J., Batargias C., Bonhomme F., Canario A., Chistiakov D., Choudhuri J.V., Galibert F., Georgoudis A., Haley C.S., Hellemans B., Kuhl H., Kotoulas G., Law A., Libertini A., Magoulas A., McAndrew B.J., Reinhardt R., Senger F., Souche E., Tsigenopoulos C., Whitaker H.A. (2006) Genomic resources for the aquaculture of European sea bass. IXth International Symposium for Genetics in Aquaculture, Montpellier (F), June 25-30, 2006 (submitted)

Popular science

Flyer (2004)

Using the genetic blueprint of seabass and seabream for aquaculture: introducing the aquaculture projects BASSMAP and BRIDGE-MAP 2001-2005