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- Title
Acclimation to seawater allows activation of spermatozoa of a euryhaline fish Oryzias latipes.
- Authors
Sawayama, Eitaro; Koyanagi, Masaru; Tanabe, Nana; Makiguchi, Yuya
- Abstract
Medaka Oryzias latipes is a tiny euryhaline fresh water fish distributed in environments differing widely in salinity. According to past reports, Oryzias latipes spermatozoa are not active in saline conditions. We identified a brackish water–colonized population of medaka that showed a high fertilization rate in seawater and investigated whether this was genetically based. Two G1 populations were produced and placed in either fresh water or 50% seawater soon after hatching. After maturation, sperm was obtained from dissected testis, and motility of the spermatozoa was evaluated in fresh or seawater. Spermatozoa of the fresh water–reared fish were activated only in fresh water, whereas those of the 50% seawater–reared fish were motile in both fresh and seawater. After fresh water–reared fish were acclimated to 50% seawater, spermatozoa could be activated in seawater. These results indicated that spermatozoon motility with respect to salinity is a phenotypic plastic trait in medaka.
- Publication
Environmental Biology of Fishes, 2022, Vol 105, Issue 6, p787
- ISSN
0378-1909
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1007/s10641-022-01285-x