The Caspian frisian roach (Rutilus frisii kutum), economically a very important fish species in Iran, is propagated in fishponds, reared into the rivers in fingerling size and then harvested from the Caspian Sea in adult stage. We found six monogenean parasites on the Caspian frisian roach including five Dactylogyrus spp. on fingerlings cultured in fishponds and rivers and two Dactylogyrus spp....

The negative impact of anthropogenic noise on marine animals is receiving increasing attention. In order to study the effect of motorboat noise on foraging behaviour in fish, we chose 2 species with different hearing abilities. The roach Rutilus rutilus has a better developed sense of hearing than the Eurasian perch Perca fluviatilis. The study took place in an inlet of the Bothnian Sea where b...

Efforts to taxonomically delineate species are often confounded with conflicting information and subjective interpretation. Advances in genomic methods have resulted in a new approach to taxonomic identification that stands to greatly reduce much of this conflict. This approach is ideal for species complexes, where divergence times are recent (evolutionarily) and lineages less well defined. The...

The complementary DNAs (cDNA) encoding the [Trp7,Leu8]-gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (salmon-type GnRH; sGnRH:GeneBank accession no. u60667) and the [His5,Trp7,Tyr8]-GnRH (chicken-II-type GnRH; cGnRH-II: GeneBank accession no. u60668) precursor in the roach (Rutilus rutilus) were isolated and sequenced following reverse transcription and rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE). The sGnRH and ...

a series of specific toxicological effects including bioaccumulation of the pollutant, histological changes and influences on liver tissue were examined in the roach fish (rutilus rutilus) after the exposure to graded sublethal concentrations (10 , 30 , 50 μg hg/l) of mercury chloride (mc). histopathological changes, such as oedema, vacuolization, pyknotic nucleus, telangiectasis, and degenerat...

In the spring and summer of each year, large patches of submersed aquatic macrophytes overgrow the bottom of the alluvial Warta River downstream of a large dam reservoir owing to water management practices. Environmental variables, macroinvertebrates (zoobenthos and epiphytic fauna, zooplankton) and fish abundance and biomass were assessed at this biologically productive habitat to learn intras...

Assessments of patterns animal movements are important for understanding their spatial ecology. Geostatistical models stable isotope (SI) landscapes (isoscapes) provide a complementary tool to telemetry assessing and predicting movements, but rarely applied riverine species. Often single-isotope gradients in freshwater environments insufficiently variable high isoscape resolution at relatively ...

support vector machine (svm) was used to analyze the occurrence of roach in flemish stream basins (belgium). several habitat and physico?chemical variables were used as inputs for the model development. the biotic variable merely consisted of abundance data which was used for predicting presence/absence of roach. genetic algorithm (ga) was combined with svm in order to select the most important...

Aspidogaster limacoides Diesing, 1834 was identified in two specimens of roach (Rutilus rutilus L.) from middle Odra River (Lower Silesia, SW Poland). As the species is new to the Polish parasitofauna, a description, measurements and figure are presented.