Our facilities include a laboratory, fish-culture rooms (at the "Ramalhete" Station and at the LEOA Building) and offices. The “Ramalhete” Aquaculture Station is part of CCMAR and is situated in the Ria Formosa marine lagoon, Algarve. This station has several laboratories and is designed to breed and mantain several aquatic species used in scientific experiments (see map below)
A 50 m2 laboratory is located within the Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences (former UCTRA) main building. Its equipped with an image analysis system, stereoscopical and amplification microscopes, otolith sawing system, equipment for nucleic acids extraction and quantification, and for histological proccessing.
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