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... Changes to the natural character of European streams as a result of human activities was followed by the dramatic decrease of nase (Chondrostoma nasus, Cyprinidae) populations. Techniques of induced spawning would help culturists to increase hatchery production and supplement insufficient natural reproduction. Spawning experiments showed that the mean ovulation index (weight of stripped egg mass x ...
... Diets were examined and analyzed for 418 wintering Double-crested Cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) collected from January to mid-April 2001 and October to December 2001 at an oxbow lake in southeast Arkansas. The fish community was also sampled to examine prey availability. Gizzard Shad (Dorosoma cepedianum) and Yellow Bass (Morone mississippiensis) were the most important species in cormorant d ...
fish culture; fish eggs; Cyprinidae; fertilization (reproduction); gynogenesis; hatching; mortality; meiosis; females
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... The experiment was conducted to optimize a procedure of gynogenesis induction in Puntius sarana by suppressing meiotic cell division in fertilized eggs. Gynogenesis was induced by fertilizing normal eggs with genetically inactivated sperm followed by heat shocking. The sperm were inactivated by exposing them to a UV dose of 250 mu W cm- 2 for 2 min at a concentration of 1 x 10(8) sperm/ml. Seven d ...
Cyprinidae; carp; females; fish culture; fish ponds; hatcheries; histology; males; maturity stage; oocytes; probability; rivers; spawning; spermatogonia; testes; Poland
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... The aim of the study was to determine gonadal maturity in male and female vimba after induced spawning in the years 2001 throughout 2004, based on spawners derived from an anadromous population obtained from the Barycz River. For these 4 years, fry derived from each successive spawning were raised in carp ponds at the Experimental Hatchery Centre of the Polish Angling Association in Szczodre, Pola ...
wastewater treatment; freshwater fish; mass spectrometry; estradiol; liquid chromatography; males; estrone; minnows; gene expression; cities; vitellogenin; surface water; females; water pollution; endocrine-disrupting chemicals; messenger RNA; Cyprinidae; liver; fish cages; Nebraska
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... Recent studies have detected estrogenic compounds in surface waters in North America and Europe. Furthermore, the presence of estrogenic compounds in surface waters has been attributed, in some cases, to the discharge of wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluent. The primary objective of the current study was to determine if WWTP effluent contributes estrogens to the surface waters of Nebraska. A ...
... Biological invasions involving hybridization proceed according to prezygotic and postzygotic reproductive isolating mechanisms. Yet few comparisons of reproductive isolation have been carried out to understand how different mechanisms prevent or promote invasions involving hybridization. Here we present a study of prezygotic and postzygotic isolation between non-native red shiner (Cyprinella lutre ...
Cyprinidae; females; freshwater fish; males; rivers; India
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... The present investigation gives the length‐weight relationship (LWR) of Puntius shalynius in Meghalaya, India. The samples for the study were collected from Umiam river. The value of the exponent ‘b’ in the LWR was less than 3, with 0.885 for males and 1.616 in females. This shows that the species exhibit allometric growth pattern. There was no difference in LWR between sexes and seasons. ...
... Tu'ini, Capoeta damascina, is a widespread species in the interior basins of Iran. To examine the morphometric variations residing within the taxon, six isolated river systems from the west, south, southwest, and centre of Iran were investigated: Ghárásu, Hánnã, Bãzoft, Eghlid, Ãbãdeh, and Gãmãsiyãb. A total of 240 adult fish specimens ≥180 mm standard length (females: 180-336; males: 186-304) wer ...
... In July and August 2010, the Lincoln-Petersen capture-recapture method was used to assess the size and basic structure of a newly established population of the endangered in Poland cyprinid fish lake minnow, Eupallasella percnurus (Pall). The population that inhabits a small (0.08 ha) peat excavation site in the village of Kowalicha near Radzymin (Mazowieckie Voivodeship, Poland) was initiated in ...
Cyprinidae; age structure; females; fish; males; otoliths; rivers; sexual maturity; sport fishing; South Africa
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... Age structure, growth and size at sexual maturity of smallmouth yellowfish, Labeobarbus aeneus (Burchell), were assessed in 2008–2009. Despite its angling and food importance, little has been published on many aspects of its ecology and biology, specifically its age structure in the Vaal River system. Of 193 L. aeneus collected by gillnetting, 96 were assessed for sexual maturity, and ages were es ...
Cyprinidae; age determination; animal growth; body size; eggs; fecundity; females; fish; gender differences; gonadosomatic index; life history; males; sexual dimorphism; spatial variation; streams; watersheds; China
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... Life-history traits of Acrossocheilus fasciatus were examined using 384 specimens collected monthly during May 2009 and April 2010 in the Huishui Stream of the Qingyi watershed, China. Using scales for age determination, female and male fish comprised five and four age groups, respectively. The monthly changes in marginal increment ratio suggested that annuli on scales were formed during March thr ...
... Lontra canadensis (River Otter) have been reintroduced throughout much of their former range in North America, but our understanding of the function they serve in ecosystems to which they have been reintroduced remains incomplete. We examined the winter diet of reintroduced River Otters in Kentucky based on contents of 126 stomachs collected over three trapping seasons, 2006–2009. Fish and crayfis ...
... Mating systems evolve with sexual size dimorphism (SSD) in many animals. Mating systems with males larger than females occur when males compete for female access or guard territories, while mating systems with group mating tend to occur in species where females are the same size or larger than males. In addition to variation in SSD with mating system, sperm competition varies among mating systems ...
Cyprinidae; body weight; egg weight; fauna; females; fish; fisheries; gonads; indigenous species; males; population dynamics
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... Neosalanx taihuensis is an important zooplanktivorous commercial fish that has been widely introduced into Chinese freshwaters. Introduction of this species has induced decline and even extinction of native fish species in some waters. In this study, impacts of N. taihuensis introduction on growth and reproductive characteristics of an indigenous zooplanktivorous fish Hemiculter leucisculus were i ...
... Three species of Opsaridium occur in the Lake Malawi catchment. The kabyabya Opsaridium tweddleorum is a small species restricted to inflowing rivers and streams, the mpasa Opsaridium microlepis is a large lake-dwelling species that ascends the lower reaches of inflowing rivers during the rains to spawn, and the sanjika Opsaridium microcephalum has riverine, potamodromous and lake spawning populat ...
... In recent decades, the link between the exaggeration of male sexual ornaments and ejaculate quality has received much attention. When males with conspicuous sexual ornaments have high-quality ejaculate, females are believed to obtain benefits, such as high fertilization success and offspring with good genes, by choosing mates on the basis of male ornamentation. In this study, we examined the relat ...
Cottus carolinae; Cyprinidae; Etheostoma blennioides; adults; demographic statistics; fecundity; females; fish; gills; hosts; juveniles; life history; males; mussels; population structure; rivers; sexual maturity; spawning; summer; Tennessee
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... Population characteristics and life history aspects of healthy mussel populations are poorly understood. The reproductive cycle, age and growth, and population structure of Obovaria subrotunda were examined at four sites in the middle Duck River, Tennessee. Obovaria subrotunda was confirmed to be a bradytictic species, spawning in the late summer and holding glochidia in the gills for 11 mo until ...
... This study presents the first ethological description of the reproductive behaviour of the cyprinid Squalius pyrenaicus, endemic to the Iberian Peninsula. The behavioural pattern of this endangered species during the breeding season is non-communal and includes the preparation of a spawning pit (depressions in the substratum) by males, a behaviour not described for Iberian cyprinids so far but alr ...
Cyprinidae; Oreochromis aureus; age structure; air temperature; extinction; females; fish; habitat destruction; habitats; invasive species; life history; longevity; males; spawning; Jordan
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... Information on the life‐history traits of threatened fishes can inform their conservation as they can indicate resilience to environmental change and vulnerability to extirpation and extinction. Garra ghorensis, a small (< 140 mm total length) riverine cyprinid fish, endemic to the southern Dead Sea area, is critically endangered through habitat loss and invasive species. There are, however, no da ...