PCR-free shotgun sequencing of the stone loach mitochondrial genome (Barbatula barbatula)

The stone loach (Barbatula barbatula) occurs in three main areas in Sweden. In the north, it is found in Lapland in the River Torneälven. In the south, it is found in Skåne. There are also two populations near the cities of Stockholm and Nyköping. New data suggest that these two populations originate from fish that were kept in ponds. In the 1740s King Frederick I is said to have released stone loaches from German sources in Lake Mälaren, but this cannot explain its occurrence in Igelbäcken near Stockholm. There is also reason to believe that it was kept in ponds at the royal castle Ulriksdal in the mid-eighteenth century. The fish was possibly imported from the king's native Germany, to be eaten as a delicacy. However, historical records tell of pond-keeping of stone loach by the Royal court in the Stockholm area during the 1680s.

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Characterization of microsatellite loci in the stone loach, Barbatula barbatula L.

Molecular Ecology Notes ◽

10.1046/j.1471-8278.2001.00043.x ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 1 (1-2) ◽

pp. 96-97 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Martin I. Taylor ◽

Ronny Blust ◽

Erik Verheyen

Keyword(s):

Microsatellite Loci ◽

Stone Loach ◽

Barbatula Barbatula

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Estimation of Parameters in a Bertalanffy Type of Temperature Dependent Growth Model Using Data on Juvenile Stone Loach (Barbatula barbatula)

Acta Biotheoretica ◽

10.1007/s10441-012-9166-0 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 60 (4) ◽

pp. 393-405

Author(s):

Johan Grasman ◽

Willem B. E. van Deventer ◽

Vincent van Laar

Keyword(s):

Growth Model ◽

Stone Loach ◽

Estimation Of Parameters ◽

Temperature Dependent ◽

Barbatula Barbatula ◽

Dependent Growth ◽

Using Data

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Seasonal dynamics of Proteocephalus sagittus in the stone loach Barbatula barbatula from the Haná River, Czech Republic

Journal of Helminthology ◽

10.1079/joh2004238 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 78 (3) ◽

pp. 225-229 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

J. Jarkovský ◽

B. Koubková ◽

T. Scholz ◽

M. Prokeš ◽

V. Baruš

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Seasonal Cycle ◽

Early Spring ◽

Early Summer ◽

Fish Host ◽

Late Winter ◽

Stone Loach ◽

Barbatula Barbatula ◽

Infection Parameters ◽

First Time

AbstractThe seasonal cycle of the cestode Proteocephalus sagittus (Cestoda: Proteocephalidae) was studied for the first time in the stone loach Barbatula barbatula from the Haná River, Czech Republic. A total of 180 loaches were examined monthly from January to December 2001. The parasite occurred in loaches throughout the year but infection parameters differed significantly among seasons, with the highest values of prevalence and abundance from the late winter to the early summer. Parasite recruitment took place in the winter and early spring and the worms sexually matured in the late spring and early summer. In contrast to P. torulosus, the gravid worms of which laid eggs only at the end of the spring/beginning of the summer, gravid worms of P. sagittus were also found, although in low numbers, in the autumn and early winter. The rate of infection of loach with P. sagittus was neither dependent on the sex nor on the size of its fish host.

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