publication . Article . Other literature type . 2016

Adaptations of semen characteristics and sperm motility to harsh salinity: Extreme situations encountered by the euryhaline tilapia Sarotherodon melanotheron heudelotii (Dumeril, 1859).

Name: Adaptations of semen characteristics and sperm motility to harsh salinity: Extreme situations encountered by the euryhaline tilapia Sarotherodon melanotheron heudelotii (Dumeril, 1859).
Keywords: Food Animals, Animal Science and Zoology, Equine, Small Animals, Acclimation, Adaptation, Motility, [SDV.BA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology

Marc Legendre; Otomar Linhart; Sayyed Mohammad Hadi Alavi; Galina Prokopchuk; Boris Dzyuba; Rémi Dugué; Jacky Cosson; Christophe Cochet;

Open Access

Published: 01 Sep 2016 Journal: Theriogenology, volume 86, pages 1,251-1,267 (issn: 0093-691X,

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Country: France

Summary

Abstract

International audience; In most teleost fishes, sperm cells are quiescent in the seminal plasma and are activated by either a drop (fresh water fish) or an increase in osmolality (marine fish) when released in the water. It is most interesting to examine how the mechanisms of sperm motility activation can adapt to a broad range of salinities, as applies to some euryhaline species, and particularly to the tilapia Sarotherodon melanotheron heudelotii, which can reproduce at salinities from 0 up to 120 in the wild. Here, the gonado-somatic index, semen characteristics, and the osmotic and ionic requirements of sperm motility activation were compared in S. m. heudel...

doi: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2016.04.066

Subjects

free text keywords: Food Animals, Animal Science and Zoology, Equine, Small Animals, Acclimation, Adaptation, Motility, [SDV.BA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology, Semen, External fertilization, Ecology, Tilapia, food.ingredient, food, Euryhaline, Salinity, Plasma osmolality, Sperm, Animal science, Sperm motility, Biology

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