Effects of starvation on larval growth, survival, and metamorphosis of Manila clam Ruditapes philippinarum

The effects of starvation on larval growth, survival, and metamorphosis of Manila clam Ruditapes philippinarum at the temperature of 19.6–21.6 °C, the salinity of 34‰ and pH of 8.0 were investigated from May 18 to July 18, 2006. In this study, the early, middle and late umbo-veliger larvae with the shell lengths of 100, 140, and 190 μm were subject to temporary food deprivation for up to 4.5, 20, and 25d at 0.5, 4, 5d intervals, followed by refeeding for the remaining of a 24, 20, 25d period, respectively. The results suggested that the larvae should have shown considerable tolerance to starvation due to their endogenous and exterior nutrition material, for larvae and time to the point-of-no-return (PNR: the threshold point during starvation after which larvae could no longer metamorphose even if food is provided) were calculated to be 4.25, 17.54, and 22.17d. As the starvation period prolonged, the mean shell length of larvae starved got close to constants at 1.5, 4, and 15d after starvation, which were different for larvae at different stages when starvation began, survival of larvae decreased, and was lower in treatments starved earlier in development than those starved later, for the early, middle and late umbo-veliger larvae, after 4.5, 20 and 25d of starvation period, few larvaes were alive. After starvation period, the alive larvaes were able to metamorphose and had a capability of compensatory growth when refeeding was given. Starvation not only affected metamorphosis rate, but also caused the delay in the time to metamorphosis and the decrease in the metamorphosed sizes. For example, for the continuously-fed larvae, duration to metamorphosis was 20.7d, for larvae with a size of 100-μm starved for up to 4d, larvae with a size of 140-μm starved for up to 16d, larvae with a size of 190-μm starved for up to 20d, duration to metamorphosis were 29.7, 31.7, and 37.7d, the delay in duration to metamorphosis were 9, 11, and 17d, respectively. Furthermore, importance of nutrition material for maintaining larval survival during starvation and the compensatory growth on larvae at the same feeding time were discussed.     

Effects of temperature and delayed initial feeding on the survival and growth of Japanese flounder larvae

The effects of the timing of initial feeding (0, 1, 2, 3 and 4 days after yolk exhaustion) and temperature (15, 18 and 21° C) on the point‐of‐no‐return (PNR), survival and growth of laboratory‐reared Japanese flounder Paralichthys olivaceus larvae were studied under controlled conditions. The larvae reached PNR on 7·7, 5·2 and 4·2 days‐post‐hatching (dph) at 15, 18 and 21° C, respectively. At each temperature, larval growth did not differ significantly among the delayed initial feedings 1 day before PNR but decreased significantly in larvae first fed after that. In the treatments where initial feeding was equally delayed, larvae grew significantly faster at 18 and 21° C than at 15° C. The larvae survived apparently better at 15 and 18° C than at 21° C when initial feeding was equally delayed. At each temperature, survival of the larvae first fed before PNR did not differ noticeably, while delayed initial feeding after that apparently reduced their survival. These results indicated that there existed a negatively temperature‐dependent PNR in the Japanese flounder larvae. Survival and growth of the larvae strongly depended on temperature as well as the timing of initial feeding. High temperature accelerated the yolk exhaustion and growth of the larvae and thus reduced their starvation tolerance and survival. To avoid potential starvation mortality and obtain good growth, the Japanese flounder larvae must establish successful initial feeding within 2 days after yolk exhaustion at 15° C and within 1 day at both 18 and 21° C.     

赤水河银鮈的早期发育与仔鱼的耐饥饿能力

利用采自赤水河下游的银鮈(Squalidus argentatus)鱼卵对其早期发育进行了观察和描述,并对仔鱼的耐饥饿能力进行了研究。银卵属中等大小的漂流性卵,具双层卵膜,外膜径(3.35±0.41)mm。胚胎发育分32个发育期,在水温24.6～25.5℃时历时40h。初孵仔鱼全长(3.84±0.36)mm,眼下有一个黑点,胸鳍原基已形成,经85d左右发育成幼鱼。仔鱼孵出后2～3d开口摄食,5日龄时初次摄食率即达100%。持续饥饿对银鮈仔鱼生长、发育、存活均有很大影响,饥饿仔鱼11～12d达不可逆点(PNR),饥饿至13日龄时,绝大部分仔鱼死亡。     

半滑舌鳎仔鱼的摄食与生长

在水温23.4-24.0℃、盐度33.00、pH7.78-8.02的培养条件下,半滑舌鳎初孵仔鱼全长为3.55±0.161mm(n=60),依照公式4/3π.R/2.(r/2)2计算其卵黄囊体积为0.606±0.106mm3(n=60)。1日龄仔鱼,全长为4.99±0.211mm(n=10),卵黄囊体积较初孵仔鱼缩小近10倍,约为0.066±0.008mm3(n=10);2日龄,仔鱼的巡游模式建立,仔鱼全长为5.61±0.069mm,卵黄囊体积为0.030±0.002mm3(n=10),口初开;2.5日龄,口完全裂开,口裂0.24±0.024mm(n=10),仔鱼进入摄食期;3日龄,仔鱼的外源性摄食关系初步建立;4日龄,仔鱼的摄食率达100%,完成了内源性营养向外源性营养的转换;5日龄,仔鱼的卵黄完全被吸收,仅剩聚成一团的小油球,仔鱼的混合营养期持续2.5天时间;21日龄,稚鱼全长为12.96±0.611mm(n=11),仍有40%的个体残余的油球还没有完全被吸收,其体积仅为0.0000005±0.000003mm3(n=11)。仔鱼发育过程中,其长度的生长存在内源性营养阶段的快速生长、混合营养阶段的慢速生长以及饥饿期间的负生长三个生长期相,平均增长率为0.45mm/d,依照TL=aD3 bD2 cD d方程式对仔鱼的全长与日龄进行回归,其生长模型为TL(mm)=0.0026D3-0.0704D2 0.7993D 3.55(R2=0.9811,n=324)。仔鱼耐受饥饿的时间临界点发生在孵化后第10天(即9日龄)。仔鱼具有摄食能力的时间约6天,不可逆转饥饿期的时间约3天。残余的油球较长时间的存在,相对地延长了仔鱼混合营养期的时间,对仔鱼的发育、生长和存活有着至关重要的作用。5-20日龄的个体都具有胸角这个明显的形态学特征,只是饥饿个体和不可逆转饥饿期个体的胸角比摄食个体更为明显和尖锐,胸角不能作为区分健康仔鱼和饥饿仔鱼的形态学依据之一[动物学报51(6)1023-1033,2005]。     

Post-fire ecological succession: A theoretical modeling framework

The effects of starvation on larval growth, survival, and metamorphosis of Manila clam Ruditapes philippinarum at the temperature of 19.6–21.6 °C, the salinity of 34‰ and pH of 8.0 were investigated from May 18 to July 18, 2006. In this study, the early, middle and late umbo-veliger larvae with the shell lengths of 100, 140, and 190 μm were subject to temporary food deprivation for up to 4.5, 20, and 25d at 0.5, 4, 5d intervals, followed by refeeding for the remaining of a 24, 20, 25d period, respectively. The results suggested that the larvae should have shown considerable tolerance to starvation due to their endogenous and exterior nutrition material, for larvae and time to the point-of-no-return (PNR: the threshold point during starvation after which larvae could no longer metamorphose even if food is provided) were calculated to be 4.25, 17.54, and 22.17d. As the starvation period prolonged, the mean shell length of larvae starved got close to constants at 1.5, 4, and 15d after starvation, which were different for larvae at different stages when starvation began, survival of larvae decreased, and was lower in treatments starved earlier in development than those starved later, for the early, middle and late umbo-veliger larvae, after 4.5, 20 and 25d of starvation period, few larvaes were alive. After starvation period, the alive larvaes were able to metamorphose and had a capability of compensatory growth when refeeding was given. Starvation not only affected metamorphosis rate, but also caused the delay in the time to metamorphosis and the decrease in the metamorphosed sizes. For example, for the continuously-fed larvae, duration to metamorphosis was 20.7d, for larvae with a size of 100-μm starved for up to 4d, larvae with a size of 140-μm starved for up to 16d, larvae with a size of 190-μm starved for up to 20d, duration to metamorphosis were 29.7, 31.7, and 37.7d, the delay in duration to metamorphosis were 9, 11, and 17d, respectively. Furthermore, importance of nutrition material for maintaining larval survival during starvation and the compensatory growth on larvae at the same feeding time were discussed.     

温度对花斑副沙鳅仔鱼发育、摄食及不可逆点的影响

2011年4～5月,研究了温度对花斑副沙鳅(Parabotia fasciata)早期仔鱼的发育、初次摄食时间、群体摄食率及不可逆点(PNR)的影响。结果发现,花斑副沙鳅仔鱼出膜后2 d已开始摄食;初次群体摄食率最高值出现在卵黄囊耗尽后的1～2 d,花斑副沙鳅仔鱼的摄食强度随温度升高而增大。仔鱼抵达PNR的时间随温度升高而缩短:22℃时,仔鱼的PNR出现在出膜后的8.0～9.0 d;26℃时,PNR为7.0 d;28℃时,PNR为5.5 d;30℃时,PNR为5.0 d。最大初次摄食率至PNR之间为不可逆饥饿期,22℃时为3.5 d,30℃时仅为1.5 d,说明温度越高,仔鱼耐受饥饿的能力越差,越不利于仔鱼的存活。研究认为,温度对花斑副沙鳅仔鱼发育、摄食及不可逆点的影响较大;在苗种培育过程中,应根据温度确定投饵时间,适时投饵对仔鱼的成活显得尤其重要。     

Development,cross-species/genera transferability of novel EST-SSR markers and their utility in revealing population structure and genetic diversity in sugarcane

Sugarcane (Saccharum spp. hybrid) with complex polyploid genome requires a large number of informative DNA markers for various applications in genetics and breeding. Despite the great advances in genomic technology, it is observed in several crop species, especially in sugarcane, the availability of molecular tools such as microsatellite markers are limited. Now-a-days EST-SSR markers are preferred to genomic SSR (gSSR) as they represent only the functional part of the genome, which can be easily associated with desired trait. The present study was taken up with a new set of 351 EST-SSRs developed from the 4085 non redundant EST sequences of two Indian sugarcane cultivars. Among these EST-SSRs, TNR containing motifs were predominant with a frequency of 51.6%. Thirty percent EST-SSRs showed homology with annotated protein. A high frequency of SSRs was found in the 5′UTR and in the ORF (about 27%) and a low frequency was observed in the 3′UTR (about 8%). Two hundred twenty-seven EST-SSRs were evaluated, in sugarcane, allied genera of sugarcane and cereals, and 134 of these have revealed polymorphism with a range of PIC value 0.12 to 0.99. The cross transferability rate ranged from 87.0% to 93.4% in Saccharum complex, 80.0% to 87.0% in allied genera, and 76.0% to 80.0% in cereals. Cloning and sequencing of EST-SSR size variant amplicons revealed that the variation in the number of repeat-units was the main source of EST-SSR fragment polymorphism. When 124 sugarcane accessions were analyzed for population structure using model-based approach, seven genetically distinct groups or admixtures thereof were observed in sugarcane. Results of principal coordinate analysis or UPGMA to evaluate genetic relationships delineated also the 124 accessions into seven groups. Thus, a high level of polymorphism adequate genetic diversity and population structure assayed with the EST-SSR markers not only suggested their utility in various applications in genetics and genomics in sugarcane but also enriched the microsatellite marker resources in sugarcane.     

沙氏下鱵鱼仔鱼的摄食能力和营养代谢

20 0 0年 6月 18日 14 :2 0时在 35°0 0′N、 12 1°0 0′E海域利用大型浮游生物网采集了大量的沙氏下鱼天然受精卵 ,将受精卵置于新鲜的海水中进行人工孵化 ,7月 1日 8时仔鱼开始孵出 ,0 5h后收集大约 5 0 0尾初孵仔鱼条进行饥饿试验。在培养水温为 2 4 2～ 2 4 8℃条件下 ,沙氏下鱼仔鱼孵化后 1h就建立起巡游模式 ,4h就具有非常高的初次摄食率和摄食强度 ,仔鱼的混合营养期为 2d ,具有初次摄食能力的时间为 3d ,饥饿不可逆转点发生在孵化后大约 3 5d ,不可逆点 (PNR)期仔鱼没有出现胸角这一形态学特征。沙氏下鱼仔鱼这么短的时间建立巡游模式 ,对仔鱼在混合营养期这一有限的时间内顺利地建立起外源性摄食关系 ,在时间上取得了一定的保障作用 ,对种群的繁衍策略具有一定的生态学意义 ,说明在仔鱼的初次摄食阶段 ,自然海区中适合于仔鱼摄食的饵料生物的种类、分布与数量对其早期的成活是至关重要的。PNR期仔鱼是否具有胸角以及胸角是否为仔鱼的饥饿体征因种而异 ,在渔业资源生态调查的仔鱼样品的鉴别工作中 ,应用仔鱼的胸角鉴别健康仔鱼和饥饿仔鱼时应因种而论.     

沙氏下(鱼*)鱼仔鱼的摄食能力和营养代谢

2000年6月18日14:20时在35°00′N、121°00′E海域利用大型浮游生物网采集了大量的沙氏下(鱼*)鱼天然受精卵,将受精卵置于新鲜的海水中进行人工孵化,7月1日8时仔鱼开始孵出,0.5 h后收集大约500尾初孵仔鱼条进行饥饿试验.在培养水温为24.2～24.8℃条件下,沙氏下(鱼*)鱼仔鱼孵化后1 h就建立起巡游模式,4 h就具有非常高的初次摄食率和摄食强度,仔鱼的混合营养期为2 d,具有初次摄食能力的时间为3 d,饥饿不可逆转点发生在孵化后大约3.5 d,不可逆点(PNR)期仔鱼没有出现胸角这一形态学特征.沙氏下(鱼*)鱼仔鱼这么短的时间建立巡游模式,对仔鱼在混合营养期这一有限的时间内顺利地建立起外源性摄食关系,在时间上取得了一定的保障作用,对种群的繁衍策略具有一定的生态学意义,说明在仔鱼的初次摄食阶段,自然海区中适合于仔鱼摄食的饵料生物的种类、分布与数量对其早期的成活是至关重要的.PNR期仔鱼是否具有胸角以及胸角是否为仔鱼的饥饿体征因种而异,在渔业资源生态调查的仔鱼样品的鉴别工作中,应用仔鱼的胸角鉴别健康仔鱼和饥饿仔鱼时应因种而论[动物学报 49(4):466～472,2003].