Fish skin serves as the first line of defense against a wide variety of chemical, physical and biological stressors. Secretion of mucus is among the most prominent characteristics of fish skin and numerous innate immune factors have been identified in the epidermal mucus. However, molecular mechanisms underlying the mucus secretion and immune activities of fish skin remain largely unclear due t...

cobitis keyvani is recently described from the sourhern caspian sea basin. limited information is available about morphological features of c. keyvani , therefore this study was conducted to provide osteological characteristics and cranial myology of this species. for this purpose, nine specimens of c. keyvani were collected from the talar river. the specimens were cleared and stained with aliz...

This paper investigates the wave transmission through artificial reefs utilised as low-crested breakwaters to mitigate coastal erosion and reduce energy. The study utilises DualSPHysics smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) solver evaluate effectiveness of such structures. Wave coefficients were computed for various reef configurations conditions. Results indicate that shifted configuration pro...

Triplophysa fishes are the primary component of the fish fauna on the Tibetan Plateau and are well adapted to the high-altitude environment. Despite the importance of Triplophysa fishes on the plateau, the genetic mechanisms of the adaptations of these fishes to this high-altitude environment remain poorly understood. In this study, we generated the transcriptome sequences for three Triplophysa...

Experiments on the capacity of the isolated teleost blastoderm to undergo development when cultivated in vitro have revealed species differences in the time of initiation of blastoderm differentiation. Thus the Fundulus blastoderm acquires the ability to develop after being separated from the yolk at the stage of 32 blastomeres (Oppenheimer, 1936) while the blastoderms of pike and of salmon dif...