Objective- Acipenser persicus is one of the most important caviar producing fishes in the Caspian Sea and one of the endangered species of the sturgeon fishes. For breeding of sturgeons, large numbers of animals have to be captured and examined to obtain sufficient numbers of mature fishes that will spawn within a few months in captivity. Design- Original study Animals- A total of 66 adult Acip...

effects of sodium salt solutions on physicochemical and sensory characteristics of refrigerated persian sturgeon (acipenser persicus) fillets during 12 days of storage were investigated. fillets were dipped in solutions (2.5% w/v) of sodium acetate (sa), sodium lactate (sl), sodium citrate (sc) and distilled water (as control) for 10 minutes and then packaged. an assessment of tbars, ffa, ph, h...

persian sturgeon, acipenser persicus is a native, commercially important and highly steemed fish species in the caspian sea. in this study, effects of nodularin (nodln), a cyclic pentapeptide hepatotoxin, on liver and gill tissues of a. persicus were studied. nodularin was produced in high amounts by nodularia spumigena, a cyanobacterium species during the algal bloom in the caspian sea and was...

mitochondria1 dna (mtdna) control region sequences were analyzed to evaluate the population genetic structure of persian sturgeon (acipenser persicus) in caspian sea. a total of 45 specimens were collected from the different locations of the caspian sea. mtdna control region was amplified using pcr. direct sequencing was performed according standard method. the results showed that 12 haplotypes...

in the present study, mitochondrial dna polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (pcr-rflp) assay was used to assess the population structure and genetic relationships among six persian sturgeon, acipenser persicus populations from south caspian sea along the iranian coast. the complete nucleotide dehydrogenase subunit 5 (nadh 5) region of mtdna amplified by pcr was di...

histopathological and pathomorphological effects of 15 ppb mercuric chloride on persian sturgeon, acipenser persicus, were investigated using histological and electron microscopy observations. light microscopy showed that the gill epithelial hypertrophy, wrinkling and hyperplasia in lamellar epithelia and lamellae fusion occurred after 48 h of exposure. gill epithelia also showed occasional nec...