abstract: this study provides a new and updated checklist of the freshwater fishes of the persis region which drains to the persian gulf. the list is based on historical literature records and taxon occurrence data obtained from natural history collections and new fish collections. the confirmed freshwater fishes of the persis region (sub-basin) comprise 44 species in 34 genera, 14 families, 11...

sperm morphology, biochemistry and physiology were compared between siberian sturgeon Acipenser baerii and sterlet A. ruthenus in the present study. We observed wide morphological variations between spermatozoa of the two species. the average length of the spermatozoon head was 7.01 and 5.14 μm in A. baerii and A. ruthenus, respectively. Significant differences were observed in terms of Na+, k+...

—Because white sturgeon Acipenser transmontanus show no readily discernible external signs of gender, management agencies use surgical biopsies to determine the sex and stage of gonadal maturity of individuals. This procedure is highly invasive and can be difficult under field conditions. Therefore, gonadal tissue and blood were collected from white sturgeon captured in tribal and commercial fi...

•De novo reference genome assemblies of four non-teleost ray-finned fishes•Basal fishes have key limb development regulatory elements•Lung-related genes in early hold the for lung origin•Cardio-respiratory systems’ co-evolution during air breathing evolution Rich fossil evidence suggests that many traits and functions related to terrestrial were present long before ancestor lobe- fishes. Here, ...