The sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus L.) is a bottom-feeding fish species with a direct exposure to contaminants from water and sediments. Although heavy metal pollution is believed to be one of the main threats to the sterlet population in the Danube River basin, there is a lack of knowledge of the exact impact of heavy metals on their survival. In the present study, effects of heavy metal pollutio...

Several whole genome duplication (WGD) events followed by rediploidization took place in the evolutionary history of vertebrates. Acipenserids represent a convenient model group for investigation of the consequences of WGD as their representatives underwent additional WGD events in different lineages resulting in ploidy level variation between species, and these processes are still ongoing. Ear...

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+...

Physical enrichment of structures has been used for the last decades in aquaculture to improve fish production and welfare. Until now, this practiced monoculture but not polyculture. In study, we developed a polyculture two freshwater species (pikeperch sterlet) recirculated systems (tank 2.4 m3) with or without physical enrichment. Two types were used: cover plank on part tank decreasing light...

This study was carried out to investigate the supplemental effects of dietary garlic extract (GE) on growth performance of juvenile sterlet sturgeon (Acipenser ruthenus). The first experiment was designed to determine the optimum levels of garlic extract as growth promoter during 10 weeks. Three groups (two replicates/group) of 240 fish with mean body weight of 85 g were fed with diets containi...

LJUBOJEVIC, D., D. TRBOVIC, J. LUJIC, O. BJELIC-CABRILO, D. KOSTIC, N. NOVAKOV and M. CIRKOVIC, 2013. Fatty Acid Composition of Fishes from Inland Waters. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., Supplement 1: 62–71 The paper presents a comparative analysis of proximate and fatty acid composition of seven fi sh species from the Danube River including asp (Aspius aspius), common bream (Abramis brama), common barbe...

The sturgeon (Acipenseriformes) is an important farmed species because of its economical value. However, neither gene transfer nor gene editing techniques have been established in sturgeon for molecular breeding and gene functional study until now. In this study, we accomplished gene transfer and gene editing in sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus), which has the shortest sexual maturation period of st...

The aim of the present study was the genetic analysis of the Dniester population of sterlet Acipenser ruthenus and comparison of it to five other sterlet populations, in order to develop a population recovery plan. The genetic analysis of six sterlet populations from Eurasian rivers (Dniester, Dnieper, Danube, Volga, Kama and Ob) was carried out using microsatellite DNA markers. The genetic var...

No significant differences in macro- and micromorphology were found between the parasitic stolon and free-living polyps of Polypodium sp. obtained from infected eggs of the North American acipenseriform fish Polyodon spathula and corresponding developmental stages of Polypodium hydriforme Ussov, parasitic in the Volga sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus). Therefore, both the American and the European f...