GnRHa implants and temperature modulate Lambari‐do‐rabo‐amarelo, Astyanax altiparanae (Characiformes: Characidae) induced reproduction out of the reproductive season

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Brambila‐Souza ◽  
Constantinos Chrysanthos Mylonas ◽  
Paulo Henrique de Mello ◽  
Rafael Yutaka Kuradomi ◽  
Sergio Ricardo Batlouni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Animals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 489
Author(s):  
Sylwia Prochowska ◽  
Agnieszka Partyka ◽  
Wojciech Niżański

Apoptosis is a crucial process in spermatogenesis, responsible for the elimination of abnormal sperm cells and testicular regression out of breeding season. The aim of this study was to assess if the expression of apoptosis-related genes in testicular tissue of domestic cats differed: (1) between normozoospermic and teratozoospermic donors, and (2) between reproductive and non-reproductive season. The expression of genes: BCL2L1, BCL2, BAX, BAD, FAS, FASLG, and caspases (CASP3, CASP8, CASP9, and CASP10) was analyzed by qRT-PCR in testicular tissue samples. During non-reproductive season significantly higher expression of two anti-apoptotic genes (BCL2L1 and BCL2) was observed. Additionally, there was a significant higher expression of CASP10 in teratozoospermic cats during non-reproductive than during reproductive season. No differences were noted between normozoospermic and teratozoospermic groups. Upregulation of some genes during the non-reproductive season indicates engagement of apoptotic mechanisms in the seasonal changes of semen quality in cats, however further studies on protein levels and analysis of changes on distinct testicular germinal layers are required. At the same time, teratozoospermia in the general population of cats seems to be not connected with dysregulation of apoptosis in the testes.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fengjiang Li ◽  
Naiqin Wu ◽  
Yajie Dong ◽  
Dan Zhang ◽  
Yueting Zhang ◽  
...  

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Bing Wu ◽  
Yun Hu

AbstractPaternity testing was determined in Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis) clutches during a reproductive season at Xuanzhou Nature Reserve, using five microsatellite loci. DNA from ten mother and offspring clutches was analysed to identify paternal alleles. Three or four paternal alleles were observed among three of ten clutches. These clutches were sired by at least two different males. This present study confirmed the effectiveness of microsatellite DNA markers in detecting multiple paternity within natural populations of Chinese alligator. However, to reduce the confounding effects of mutations and null alleles on allele assignment and to increase power to monitor individual's genetic contribution, we need additional variable genetic markers.


1988 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank P. Howe ◽  
Lester D. Flake

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 1732-1743 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felisa Rey ◽  
M. Rosário M. Domingues ◽  
Pedro Domingues ◽  
Rui Rosa ◽  
María D. M. Orgaz ◽  
...  

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 233-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiago H. S Pires ◽  
Fernando Z Gibran

The clingfish Gobiesox barbatulus shows nocturnal feeding activity, spending most part of the day stationary and adhered to the inferior part of stones. To feed, this species uses the sit-and-wait and particulate feeding tactics. It shows a carnivorous feeding habit mostly consuming small benthic crustaceans. It can move in two ways: (1) "stone-by-stone", sliding its ventral sucker disc across each stone and (2) "surf", when it takes advantage of the energy of the ebbing tide to quickly cross a distance up to four times its body length. Its reproductive season occurs between the end of spring and the beginning of summer, during which time it lays about 2,000 adhesive eggs of 1 mm each in a single layer under stones. It has more than one egg-laying session per reproductive season, therefore showing several different developmental stages. It performs fanning, mouthing and guarding of the eggs as forms of parental care. Data shown here also indicates that G. barbatulus has some shelter fidelity, being probably territorial.


Author(s):  
Ricardo Serrão Santos ◽  
Richard D. M. Nash ◽  
Stephen J. Hawkins

The age and population structure of Parablennius sanguinolentus parvicornis (Valenciennes) (Pisces: Blenniidae) from the Azores have been studied. Total length and weight relationships are given for each sex. Age study was based on otoliths readings. The von Bertalanffy growth function was applied to describe the growth in total length with age. At the end of the first year mean (±SD) total length was significantly different in males (7.1 ±1.5 cm) and females (6.1 ±1.2 cm). One-year-old males participate in reproduction as satellites, whereas females do not. The implications of this in early growth rate of the males is discussed. During the two most important months of the reproductive season (i.e. June and July), the sex ratio was significantly biased towards males, particularly in the larger size classes.


2008 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 823-829 ◽  
Author(s):  
FG. Araújo ◽  
MA. Silva ◽  
MCC. Azevedo ◽  
JNS. Santos

The pattern of the use of the Sepetiba Bay, a semi-closed 450 km² area in southeastern Brazil, by Anchoa tricolor was investigated to assess spawning period, recruitment and to detect spatial-temporal patterns of this major fishery resource. Fishes were sampled by seine nets, from spring, 1998 to winter, 1999 and by beach seine, from spring, 1998 to winter, 2000. Reproductive season, measured in terms of GSI, gonad development and appearance of recruits, indicate that reproduction occurs from August to March, when they reach the best condition. Recruitment peaks in winter/spring at sandy beaches where they stay until late summer, moving toward deeper bay areas during autumn. After that, they join adults and perform movements between the bay and the adjacent continental shelf to reproduce.


2003 ◽  
Vol 57 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 235-249
Author(s):  
Gustavo Decuadro-Hansen ◽  
Mihailo Savic

The aim of this study was to analyze the field work of a farmer (75 milking Normandy breed cows) during the reproductive season (between the 15 of October and the 15 of February of years 1995-2002), and to compare the visual detection technique with the use of the DEC (electronic heat detector). At the same time the information that the farmer received from the DEC helped him to breed the cows in an optimum moment for AI, which consequently reduced the number of cows that would come back into heat after 3 weeks, as well as reduce the number of cows he would cull at the end of the reproductive season for reproductive reasons. In such a manner he improved his first AI success rate from year to year (1995-49%, 1996-44%, 1997-33%, 1998- 31%, 1999-16%, 2000-58%, 2001-55% and 2002-63%).


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