The acute toxicity of cadmium, copper, and zinc to white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) were determined for 7 developmental life stages in flow-through water-only exposures. Metal toxicity varied by species and by life stage. Rainbow trout were more sensitive to cadmium than white sturgeon across all life stages, with median effect concentrations (har...

been reported in fish, all of them in trout (924,34, 47). In 1955 a high incidence of hepatic tumors was found in rainbow trout in Italian hatcheries (9). Interest in these neoplasms was renewed recently when hepatic tumors were discovered in large numbers of hatchery-reared rainbow trout in the United States (928,35, 592,61, 64), Italy (920), and France (3, 30). The main varieties of tumors th...

distribution of infectious hematopoietic necrosis (ihn) was studied in five major provinces producing rainbow trout(oncorhynchus mykiss)fry in iran by indirect fluorescence antibody ifatand nested-rt-pcr techniques. also the effect of time duration was examined on some positive samples after 8 months post sampling. samples of kidney, liver and spleen of rainbow trout fries collected from 27 tro...

Estrogen receptor-mediated induction of zona radiata (ZR) and vitellogenin (VTG) mRNA and protein in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) was compared to assess their utility as biomarkers for exposure to estrogenic compounds. Partial sequences of rainbow trout ZR and beta-actin were cloned by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) using degenerate primers based on conserved re...

Polymorphism. A variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR; Nakamura et al., 1987) polymorphism was detected in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss Walbaum) using MspI and BgZII. The probe, RVF9303, was isolated from a genomic DNA cosmid library developed from the RTG-2 cell line (Wolf and Quimby, 1962). Method of Detection. Nylon filters containing rainbow trout genomic DNA digested with MspI o...

The genome sequence of Flavobacterium psychrophilum strain CSF259-93, isolated from rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), consists of a single circular genome of 2,900,735 bp and 2,701 predicted open reading frames (ORFs). Strain CSF259-93 has been used to select a line of rainbow trout with increased genetic resistance against bacterial cold water disease.

Muscle's contractile properties can vary along different trajectories, including between muscle fiber types, along the body (within a muscle fiber type), and between developmental stages. This study explores the role of the regulatory myosin light chain (MLC2) in modulating contractile properties in rainbow trout myotomal muscle. Rainbow trout show longitudinal variations in muscle activation a...

Creatine plays an important role in the cell as an energy buffer. As the energy system is a basic element of the organism it may possibly contribute to differences between rainbow trout strains selected for the traits growth and robustness, respectively. The cDNA sequences of creatine-related genes encoding glycine amidinotransferase (GATM), guanidinoacetate N-methyltransferase (GAMT), creatine...

Routine and post-exercise metabolic rates were measured for juvenile rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss and brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis infected with the microsporidium gill parasite Loma salmonae under laboratory conditions. Rainbow trout increased routine and post-exercise metabolic rate in response to infection compared with controls. Brook trout, on the other hand, lowered routine meta...

Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) were exposed to 1.5 and 15% v/v secondary treated sewage effluent for 32 weeks in flow-through mesocosms. The exposure encompassed the full period of reproductive development for rainbow trout. Trout did not show any evidence of a dose-dependent change in growth. Fish exposed to 15% effluent were the only group to show mortality (5%) over the duration of the ...