the late sexual maturity in sturgeon and the absence of morphological differences between males and females makes sex discrimination difficult. identification of sex at an early life stage is of high interest in caviar production because it allows efficient selection of females. in this study, the genome of 10 mature male and 10 mature female specimens of persian sturgeon (acipenser persicus...

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...

Anthropogenic activities have seriously impacted wild resources of the Amur sturgeon, Acipenser schrenckii, and more information on local and regional population genetic structure is required to aid the conservation of this species. In this study, we report the development of 12 novel polymorphic microsatellite loci using next-generation sequencing technology, and the genotyping of 24 individua...

Sturgeons are fish species with a complex biology. They are also characterized by complex aspects including polyploidization and easiness of hybridization. As with most of the Ponto-Caspian sturgeons, the populations of Acipenser ruthenus from the Danube have declined drastically during the last decades. This is the first report on mitochondrial point heteroplasmy in the cytochrome b gene of th...

THE effects of the elimination of the otic placode or otocyst on the development of the cartilaginous ear capsule and columella auris have been observed in several fishes, amphibians and birds and are summarized by de Beer (1937), Yntema (1955) and Benoit (1957). More recent work includes that of Benoit (1960) and Toerien (1963). Except in the fish Acipenser (Filatow, 1930) the development of a...

Lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) is a species of conservation concern that has been stocked in several Great Lakes (North America) rivers. were extirpated the Ontonagon River Superior and stocking began 1998. In 2017, gametes collected from spawning lake (9 females, 36 males) caught at nearby Sturgeon ground, generating nine family groups using 1:4 mating design (n = 862). 2018, 3 females 1...