Cognitive appraisal in fish

263 Pages·2016·17.84 MB·English

LINKING PERSONALITY APPRAISAL MODULATORS
AND
FISH
IN

MARCO ALEXANDRE CAVACO CERQUEIRA

Tese
Doutoramento em Ciências da Vida, do Mar, da Terra e do Ambiente
Ramo de Aquacultura
(Especialidade Técnicas de produção)

Trabalho efetuado sob a orientação de:

Professora Catedrática Aposentada Maria Teresa Dinis, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia,
Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal.
Doutor Catarina Oliveira, Centro de Ciências do Mar do Algarve (CCMAR), Faro, Portugal.
Doutor Rui F. Oliveira, Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada (ISPA), Lisboa, Portugal
Doutor Simon Mackenzie, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK

2016

UNIVERSIDADE DO ALGARVE

LINKING PERSONALITY AND APPRAISAL MODULATORS IN
FISH

Marco Alexandre Cavaco Cerqueira

Tese
Doutoramento em Ciências da Vida, do Mar, da Terra e do Ambiente
Ramo de Aquacultura
(Especialidade Técnicas de produção)

Trabalho efetuado sob a orientação de:

Professora Catedrática Aposentada Maria Teresa Dinis, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia,
Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal.
Doutor Catarina Oliveira, Centro de Ciências do Mar do Algarve (CCMAR), Faro, Portugal.
Doutor Rui F. Oliveira, Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada (ISPA), Lisboa, Portugal
Doutor Simon Mackenzie, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK

2016

Linking Personality and Appraisal modulators in fish

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work was funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) and partially supported
by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme FP7–KBBE-2010-4
Contract n°: 265957 COPEWELL. Thanks for making this dissertation possible!

Many people have helped me in many different ways throughout last few years. To them, I
would like to show my most honest appreciation and gratitude.

Firstly I would like to thanks to Catarina Martins for believe in me and support my
application to FCT. Thanks for the excellent guidance, scientific discussions and valuable
advices in the very beginning of my research career. Thanks also to Professor Maria Teresa
Dinis for taking me as her student, for her availability and for valuable advices.

I would like to give a special word for Sandie Millot, “merci beaucoup” for the possibility to
work with someone so passionate for her work, for the good moments, support and valuable
scientific advices. Also, by contribute with her knowledge and technical assistance during my
experiments.

A big word of appreciation for my supervisors: thank you Catarina Oliveira, for accepting to
guide me during the hardest stages of this thesis, for discussions and valuable comments on
manuscripts, encouraging and supporting me when the motivation was narrow. Also would
like to acknowledge Simon Mackenzie, not only for give me the possibility for being his
student, but as well for being possible to work directly with a outstanding researcher, relax
and “cool” in so many ways. At the same time, for all the philosophical and scientific
discussions, manuscripts comments, patience and friendship. A big word of appreciation to
Rui Oliveira, with whom was a huge pleasure to work with, for his knowledge, brilliant
comments on manuscripts, revisions, discussions and scientific advises.

To Maria Filipa for being highly professional and hardworking, for allow me to integrate
some of her research, for valuable discussions, suggestions and technical assistance, but
mainly for her friendship; “Obrigado”.

A special thanks to Sonia Rey, for the good moments, scientific discussions, comments on
the manuscripts, technical assistance during my experiments, and for all the help in
particular moments. Specially to make me feel so well abroad of my home, by offering the
possibility to be one more from her “family”. Thank you for your patience and real
friendship.

I am also grateful to AQUAEXCEL mobility program funded by the European Union‘s Seventh
Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n° 262336, by offer me the
possibility to work in the Institute of aquaculture from the University of Stirling, valuable for
meeting a new work reality, culture and to meet many other researchers from related and
divergent fields.

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A special thanks to Mayra and Christos for helping me to go throw this time abroad, for
making me feel at home, especially for the friendship demonstrated during all that time.

I am truly indebted to all the members of the Aquaculture Research Group from CCMAR for
making the work so much easier. I would like to specifically acknowledge Lenita, Rita Cólen,
Rita Teodósio, Denise, Sarita for their friendship, for sometimes just drove me away from the
pressure and hard work of this thesis. A special thanks to Filipe for the important help during
the fish sampling. A word to Filipa Rocha, for her friendship, valuable advices and by simply
hears me when everything was breaking up.

I would also like to thanks to Miguel Garcia and João Reis from Ramalhete research station
for their valuable help in the technical part of my experiments, patience and supporting me
despite all the things i have break during that period.

I would like to thanks to Rui Oliveira lab team; Magda, Julia, Ana Faustino, Sara, Gonçalo,
André and all the others for their valuable help, technical assistance and friendship, good
discussions and good moments. I would like specifically endorse it to Ana Sofia Félix, for her
patience, shared knowledge, technical assistance, for being who she is, a truly person…
thank you.

Thank you to all the people from the Immunology lab, from CNC from University of Coimbra,
for the precious help during the molecular work. I would like to thanks specifically to Patricia
Couceiro, first for being a great sister-in-law, and secondly for her friendship, advices,
technical and emotional support. To Paulo Rodrigues Santos, for give me the possibility to
use their facilities, material and knowledge to accomplish one big part of this dissertation. A
sincere thank you!

An honest word of appreciation to Tomé Silva, for your struggle and hard work with my data
and thesis, for all the time you spent on that, for your patience and good scientific advices.

A special word to my good friends that despite the distance to some of them were so
important during this PhD in so many ways: to Marisa, Chico and Lidia for the good
moments, friendship or just for being present; to Paulo Frias, Sérgio Amorim, Rui Gonçalves
and Pedro André for their truly friendship and awesome talks, discussions and moments.

To my family, thanks for in some step of my life, being supportive and overall accepting my
options that conducted me here today… “Um sincero Muito obrigado!” A vocês, Pai e Mãe
um especial obrigado pelo vosso sacrifício, carinho e amor.

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Às mulheres da minha vida, Monalisa e Madalena, por simplesmente poder viver com a
alegria de as ter ao meu lado. Pela sua compreensão, sacrifícios, carinho e amor ao longo
deste período, pelo apoio, pelas palavras reconfortantes ou mesmo pelas menos
reconfortantes que me fizeram lutar para querer algo mais. São o meu porto de abrigo, o
meu sol, o meu oceano, o meu oásis, o meu horizonte, a minha razão para evoluir.

A vocês… dedico esta tese e o meu amor!

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