The growth and development of marine fish larvae fed copepods is superior to those fed rotifers, but the underlying molecular reasons for this are unclear. In the following study we compared the effects of such diets on redox regulation pathways during development of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) larvae. Cod larvae were fed a control diet of copepods or the typical rotifer/Artemia diet commonly u...

The meaning of alternative biotests is described and discussed. The paper also deals with the possible application of the developmental studies of the sea Artemia franciscana nauplinus. Five-day biotests including the validation criteria are described. The possibilities of the biotests are very wide. Additionally to the standard applications in ecotoxicology, there is a possibility of modelling...

Die Zusammensetzung und der Stoffwechsel der Carotinoide in adulten Exemplaren von Artemia salina wurden untersucht. Unabhängig von der Fütterung mit carotinoidfreier Hefe, mit an Oxicarotinoiden reicher Nahrung oder mit Oxocarotinoid-haltigen Algen lassen sich als Hauptpigmente Canthaxanthin (4.4'-Dioxo-/?-carotin) und Echinenon (4-Oxo-/?-carotin) nachweisen. Daneben wur­ den in einer Artemia-...

Genealogical concordance is a critical overlay of all phylogenetic analyses, irrespective of taxonomic level. To assess such patterns of congruence we have compiled and derived sequence data for two mitochondrial (16S rRNA, COI) and two nuclear (ITS1, p26) markers in 14 American populations of the hypersaline branchiopod Artemia franciscana. Cladistic analysis revealed three reciprocally monoph...

due to the importance of adult artemia in aquaculture, information regarding the digestive enzyme activities variation with inexpensive diets has great importance in artemia at different life stages. in this study, the effect of different inexpensive diets on digestive enzyme activities, including trypsin, amylse and lipase of artemia urmiana was investigated in different life stages. the exper...

This study sought to determine whether administration of steroids via bioencapsulation into live food is an efficient method for sex inversion of carnivorous species of fish in aquaculture. This technique may offer an alternative for sex reversing such species because the larvae strongly prefer live food compared to artificial diets. To determine whether steroids could accumulate in Artemia, na...

Enrichment of live foods by essential nutrients such as highly unsaturated fatty acids is an important tool for improvement of larval fish quality. In this study, nutritional effects of Artemia urmiana enriched by fish and plant oils on growth, survival rate, body compositions and resistance against thermal, salinity and hypoxic stresses in rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss were examined. Six ...

Resurrection ecology (RE) is a very powerful approach to address a wide range of question in ecology and evolution. This approach rests on using appropriate model systems, and only few are known to be available. In this study, we show that Artemia has multiple attractive features (short generation time, cyst bank and collections, well-documented phylogeography, and ecology) for a good RE model....