CHANGES IN THE MULTIPLE HEMOGLOBIN PATTERNS OF SOME PACIFIC SALMON, GENUS ONCORHYNCHUS, DURING THE PARR–SMOLT TRANSFORMATION

1964 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 697-703 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. E. Vanstone ◽  
Eve Roberts ◽  
H. Tsuyuki

By employing starch gel electrophoresis it has been found that coho salmon fry and smolts contain 10 anodal-migrating, and 12 cathodal-migrating, hemoglobin fractions. Prepuberal [Formula: see text]-year-old coho salmon caught at sea and sexually mature adults taken from fresh water contained the same anodal fractions and at approximately the same concentrations as were found in fry and smolts. However, the concentrations of the cathodal fractions had increased so that these were very nearly equal to those of the anodal fractions. Similar hemoglobin changes were found in both anadromous and land-locked sockeye salmon, but in this species seven anodal and six cathodal fractions were present at their "adult" concentrations in fry and smolts. Six other cathodal fractions which were absent entirely or present only in trace amounts in fry and smolts increased to their adult concentrations some time later in the life cycle of both varieties of sockeye. It is postulated that these changes reflect an ecological adaption to life in the ocean.

1970 ◽  
Vol 27 (7) ◽  
pp. 1325-1328 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Tsuyuki ◽  
A. P. Ronald

The approximate equivalence of tryptic fragments and total basic amino acids per molecule of hemoglobin in five species of Pacific salmon, and the demonstration in sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) of three or four electrophoretically distinct polypeptides in each of six major hemoglobin fractions separated by starch-gel electrophoresis, provided strong evidence for the in vivo existence in salmonids of molecular species of hemoglobins consisting of three and four different polypeptides. At least eight electrophoretically distinct polypeptides, including forms allelic to both the α- and β-type proteins, were found, accounting for the presence of large numbers of molecular species of hemoglobins and providing further evidence for the tetraploid origin of most salmonids.


1968 ◽  
Vol 25 (12) ◽  
pp. 2651-2663 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. P. Wilkins

The haemoglobins of over 500 salmon of different lengths, from Scotland, Greenland, and Canada have been analysed by vertical starch–gel electrophoresis at pH 8.1. Complex ontogenetic variations, involving an initial increase and later reduction in the number of fractions evident, have been observed among the anodally migrating haemoglobins. The variations observed have been correlated with changes in length, and the complete development of the anodal haemoglobin complex from the single fraction of small fish to the nine-fraction pattern of adults is outlined. The individual haemoglobin fractions appear to represent structurally distinct molecules whose regulated occurrence at different phases of the life cycle is discussed at the individual and population levels.


1962 ◽  
Vol 40 (7) ◽  
pp. 929-936 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Tsuyuki ◽  
E. Roberts ◽  
R. E. A. Gadd

By the use of starch gel electrophoretic technique the muscle myogens of the five Pacific west coast species of the Oncorhynchus genus, the steelhead trout (representative of the genus Salmo), the lingcod, and Atlantic cod have been separated. The characteristic protein patterns were used to group the members of the Oncorhynchus genus into sockeye, pink, and chum salmon on the one hand and the spring and coho salmon on the other. Correlation of the groupings based upon their protein pattern is discussed in relation to a similar grouping arrived at through behavior studies by other workers. The relationship between column and gel electrophoretic separations has been investigated.


1989 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 804-809 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Giles ◽  
D. M. Rystephanuk

Changes during development in the multiple hemoglobins of hatchery-reared Arctic charr, Salvelinus alpinus, that originated from an anadromous stock from Nauyuk Lake, Northwest Territories were examined by starch gel electrophoresis. A total of 10 anodic and 7 cathodic hemoglobins were expressed during the life cycle of the charr. Embryos and newly-hatched alevins exhibited 10 anodic and 3 cathodic components. Of these embryonic hemoglobins, 5 anodic components and possibly 1 cathodic component with similar electrophoretic mobility were observed in older fish. In free-swimming fry 3–4 new cathodic components were expressed. Two phenotypes (designated as 3-C or 5-C) were identified in postembryonic charr, distinguished by the presence of either 3 or 5 cathodic hemoglobins, respectively. In both phenotypes the proportion of cathodic hemoglobins increased progressively with age to a maximum of 22 and 18% of total hemoglobin in the 3-C and 5-C phenotypes, respectively.


1988 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 266-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. B. Murray ◽  
J. D. McPhail

Embryo and alevin survival, time to hatching and emergence, and alevin and fry size of five species of Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus) were observed at five incubation temperatures (2, 5, 8, 11, and 14 °C). No pink (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) or chum (O. keta) salmon embryos survived to hatching at 2 °C. Coho (O. kisutch) and sockeye (O. nerka) salmon had higher embryo survival at 2 °C than chinook (O. tschawytscha) salmon. At 14 °C, chum, pink, and chinook salmon had higher embryo survival than coho or sockeye salmon. In all species, peaks of embryo mortality occurred at specific developmental stages (completion of epiboly, eye pigmentation, and hatching). Alevin survival to emergence was high for all species, except for coho and pink salmon at 14 °C. Hatching and emergence time varied inversely with incubation temperature, but coho salmon hatched and emerged sooner at all temperatures than the other species. Coho and sockeye salmon alevins were larger at 2 °C, pink, chum, and chinook salmon alevins were larger at 5 and 8 °C. Coho salmon fry were larger at 2 °C, chinook and chum salmon fry were larger at 5 °C, and sockeye and pink salmon fry were larger at 8 °C. High incubation temperatures reduced fry size in all species. Each species of Pacific salmon appears to be adapted to different spawning times and temperatures, and thus indirectly to specific incubation temperatures, to ensure maximum survival and size and to maintain emergence at the most favorable time each year.


1993 ◽  
Vol 71 (6) ◽  
pp. 1207-1211 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. L. Kent ◽  
D. J. Whitaker ◽  
L. Margolis

Laboratory transmission studies were conducted on Myxobolus arcticus, a myxosporean that infects the brain of Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.). Attempts at transmission from fish to fish with spores of M. arcticus from sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), including experiments with spores aged for up to 9 months in sterilized mud, were unsuccessful. Transmission was achieved when hatchery-reared (in well water) sockeye salmon fry were exposed to the oligochaete Stylodrilus heringianus collected from a lake where M. arcticus infections are common in this fish. All experimental fish exhibited the infection when examined 3 –4 months after exposure. Of 23 sockeye salmon fry exposed to triactinomyxon spores collected from naturally infected S. heringianus, 21 were found to be infected with M. arcticus spores when examined after 3 months. Thus, the life cycle of M. arcticus involves transformation into a triactinomyxon stage in S. heringianus. Alternate development of myxosporeans in aquatic oligochaetes has been established or implicated for nine other species of myxosporeans belonging to three families, but this is the first report of alternate development in a lumbriculid worm.


1976 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 1144-1149 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Giles ◽  
W. E. Vanstone

Hemolyzates from the blood of coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) at various stages of development were subjected to micro-starch-gel electrophoresis. Three distinct electrophoretic patterns composed of different combinations of 18 hemoglobin tetramers were observed. Embryonic and yolk-sac alevins possessed 1 cathodic and 12 anodic components while fry retained only 3 of the 12 anodic polymorphs. During smoltification, 4 new cathodic components appeared and 2 of the anodic and the cathodic components of alevin hemolyzates reappeared. This latter pattern was retained until the fish spawned and died. Attempts to induce changes in the pattern of development of these hemoglobins by exposing fry and pre-smolts to extreme variations in dissolved oxygen, temperature, and salinity were completely unsuccessful.


1962 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 929-936 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Tsuyuki ◽  
E. Roberts ◽  
R. E. A. Gadd

By the use of starch gel electrophoretic technique the muscle myogens of the five Pacific west coast species of the Oncorhynchus genus, the steelhead trout (representative of the genus Salmo), the lingcod, and Atlantic cod have been separated. The characteristic protein patterns were used to group the members of the Oncorhynchus genus into sockeye, pink, and chum salmon on the one hand and the spring and coho salmon on the other. Correlation of the groupings based upon their protein pattern is discussed in relation to a similar grouping arrived at through behavior studies by other workers. The relationship between column and gel electrophoretic separations has been investigated.


1964 ◽  
Vol 12 (01) ◽  
pp. 126-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl H. Slotta ◽  
J. D Gonzalez

SummaryWhen urea or ε-amino caproic acid were used as solublizing agents for plasminogen in electrophoretic experiments, only one broad band of the proenzyme was obtained on acetate cellulose, in starch block, and in acrylamide gel. In starch gel electrophoresis, however, both forms of plasminogen – the native or euglobulin and Kline’s or Pseudoglobulin plasminogen – separated into six bands. These migrated toward the cathode at room temperature in borate or veronal buffer in the alkaline range and showed full activity in fibrinagar-streptokinase plates.


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