Pymatuning Lake, located on the Pennsylvania/Ohio border, is noted for the large numbers of bread-eating carp that frequent the Linesville Causeway "carp bowl" from May to November. Carp were trapped in 1952 and 1984 at the carp bowl, tagged, and relocated varying distances away from the bowl in Sanctuary, Middle, and Lower lakes. Carp traversed the return distances of up to 9 km in less than 4...

The recently designated cyprinid herpesvirus 3 (CyHV-3) is an emerging agent that causes fatal disease in common and koi carp. Since its emergence in the late 1990s, this highly contagious pathogen has caused severe financial losses in common and koi carp culture industries worldwide. In addition to its economic role, recent studies suggest that CyHV-3 may have a role in fundamental research. C...

1. Introduction A small-sized grass carp (43 cm long) was caught in Lake Whangape, lower Waikato River basin, in May 1997. This fish was too small to be a recapture from the escapement from trial sites in 1984 (fish which are now mostly longer than 70 cm), so could have been either a recent escapee, or the result of natural reproduction in the river. Either way, the finding of this fish indicat...

Background: An experimental study was conducted to examine growth performance and economic feasibility of Cyprinus carpio (Linnaeus, 1758) Labeo rohita (Hamilton, 1822) vis-à-vis their improved strains viz. Amur carp Jayanti rohu, in synchronously integrated rice-fish system at high altitude terraced paddy-fields (HATPF). Methods: The fields were stocked with fingerlings (6.95±0.67 g) a density...

BACKGROUND CARP-1/CCAR1, a perinuclear phospho-protein, regulates signaling by adriamycin, steroids, or growth factors. However, intracellular events that regulate CARP-1-dependent cell growth are not fully understood. RESULTS Here we investigated whether CARP-1 is involved in signaling induced by the protein kinase A inhibitor H89. Treatments of human breast cancer cells with H89 resulted in...

The grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) is one of the most important freshwater fish species in China and the world; grass carp production accounts for about 16% of the world’s total freshwater aquaculture [1]. In 2015, Wang et al. performed whole-genome sequencing and de novo assembly for a female (0.9 Gb) and male grass carp (1.07 Gb) by using the shotgun sequencing strategy [2]. Based on th...

The cDNAs encoding glutathione peroxidase (GPx) were cloned and sequenced from the liver of three Chinese carps with different tolerance to hepatotoxic microcystins, phytoplanktivorous silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) and bighead carp (Aristichthys nobilis), and herbivorous grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus). Using genome walker method, a 750 bp 5'-flanking region of the silver carp...

In this study, we report the complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences of the allotetraploid and triploid crucian carp and compare the complete mtDNA sequences between the triploid crucian carp and its female parent Japanese crucian carp and between the triploid crucian carp and its male parent allotetraploid. Our results indicate that the complete mtDNA nucleotide identity (98%) between the...

This study evaluated the potential effects of mannan oligosaccharide (MOS) on health status common carp under ammonia stress. The experimental fish were equally divided into four groups. control group was fed with a basal diet. stress (Am group) diet and set in culture environment 0.15 mg/L NH3. MOS 0.2% treatment (MOS/Am feed exposure (NH3, mg/L). These groups for 30 d. results showed that str...

BACKGROUND Anti-carbamylated protein (anti-CarP) antibodies have recently been reported to occur in around 45% of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients and to have prognostic and diagnostic properties. At present, the breadth and molecular make-up of the anti-CarP antibody response is ill defined. To understand the anti-CarP antibody immune response and potential immune effector mechanisms it can ...