The molecular mechanisms that drive the development of the endangered fossil fish species Acipenser baeri are difficult to study due to the lack of genomic data. Recent advances in sequencing technologies and the reducing cost of sequencing offer exclusive opportunities for exploring important molecular mechanisms underlying specific biological processes. This manuscript describes the large sca...

In order to investigate the effects of temperature on growth performance, biochemical indexes and genes expression in juvenile hybrid sturgeon (Acipenser baerii♀ × Acipenser schrenckii♂), five treatment groups (18 °C, 21 24 27 30 °C) were set this study. After 25 days domestication, specific rate (SGR) relative weight gain increased at first then decreased with increase range 18–30 °C reached h...

This study quantified the effects of temperature and fish mass on routine metabolism of the American paddlefish Polyodon spathula. Thermal sensitivity, as measured by Q(10) value, was low in P. spathula. Mean Q(10) was 1·78 while poikilotherms are generally expected to have Q(10) values in the 2·00-2·50 range. Mass-specific metabolism did not decrease with increased fish size to the extent that...

The anadromous Chinese sturgeon (Acipenser sinensis) is endangered and listed among the first class of protected animals in China. The possible causes for the decline of this species are the effects of synthetic chemicals, and loss of critical habitat. Chinese sturgeon in the Yangtze River have accumulated triphenyltin (TPT) to 31-128 ng/g wet weigh (ww) in liver, which is greater than the conc...

Two sturgeon species, Acipenser ruthenus (Linnaeus, 1758) and baerii (Brandt, 1869), inhabit the Irtysh basin. In 2018, we received some “atypical” specimens of sturgeon, which were similar to A . but had a number pronounced external differences. The hybrids A. × , named “oster”, can sometimes be caught in natural habitats Ob Yenisei rivers. Despite development methods for genetic identificatio...

Title of Dissertation: PERIPHERAL NEURAL CODING STRATEGIES FOR SPECTRAL ANALYSIS AND SOUND SOURCE LOCATION IN THE NON-TELEOST BONY FISH, ACIPENSER FULVESCENS Michaela Meyer, Doctor of Philosophy, 2008 Directed By: Professor Arthur N. Popper, Department of Biology, University of Maryland, CP and Professor Richard R. Fay, Parmly Hearing Institute, Loyola University of Chicago This work is an inve...

is a landlocked population restricted to a 270 km stretch of the Kootenai River, which flows from western Montana through northern Idaho and into British Columbia. This population has shown an almost complete lack of natural juvenile recruitment since 1974. The total adult population in 1998 was estimated to be about 650 individuals and this fish is currently classified as endangered by the Ida...