Comparative analysis of gonadal morphology in six fish species of the Incertae Sedis genera in Characidae of occurrence in the São Francisco River Basin, Brazil
| Autor: | Elizete Rizzo, Yoshimi Sato, José Enemir dos Santos, Fábio Pereira Arantes, Nilo Bazzoli, Yuri Simões Martins |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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geography
Gonad Morphology (linguistics) geography.geographical_feature_category biology Fish species Drainage basin Zoology Cell Biology Anatomy biology.organism_classification Incertae sedis Characidae medicine.anatomical_structure medicine Animal Science and Zoology Vitellogenesis Bryconops Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics |
| Zdroj: | Acta Zoologica. 93:48-56 |
| ISSN: | 0001-7272 |
| Popis: | Martins, Y.S., Arantes, F.P., Sato, Y., dos Santos, J.E., Rizzo, E. and Bazzoli, N. 2012. Comparative analysis of gonadal morphology in six fish species of the Incertae Sedis genera in Characidae of occurrence in the Sao Francisco River Basin, Brazil. —Acta Zoologica (Stockholm) 93: 48–56. This study presents a comparative analysis aiming to show the remarkable differences found in gonad morphology between six fish species from the genera Incertae Sedis in the Characidae family. Maturing ovaries of Astyanax fasciatus presented grayish color whilst the other species’ were yellowish in color. The cortical alveoli of the analyzed species are small (5.20 ± 1.44–8.28 ± 2.02 μm) and are formed by various discontinuous layers of vesicles except in the Bryconops affinis, where they are large (12.87 ± 2.41 μm) and form various continuous layers of vesicles. The pellucid zone is thin and varies from 2.44 ± 0.90 to 5.79 ± 1.90 μm and is thickest in B. affinis (10.57 ± 2.08 μm). Folds in the pellucid zone were observed in Astyanax bimaculatus, A. fasciatus, Hemigrammus marginatus, and Moenkhausia costae. The follicular cells of B. affinis are columnar (28.19 ± 13.71 μm), while they are squamous in other species (1.52 ± 0.64–2.12 ± 0.78 μm). This study showed that the morphologic and biometric characteristics of the B. affinis vitellogenic oocytes are statistically different than the analyzed other ones Incertae Sedis of the Characidae family. In advanced maturing testis of A. bimaculatus and A. fasciatus, the spermatozoa were embedded in acidophilic secretion which was gradually reabsorbed in the seminiferous tubules when males were partially spent. |
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