The stable isotope values of nitrogen (δ 15 N) and carbon 13 C) have been widely used in ecological studies to decipher the trophic relationships interactions that occur between living organisms. aim this study was determine relationship a commercially important tropical Australian marine fish ( Protonibea diacanthus (Lacepède, 1802)) (Sciaenidae) its associated parasites, through analysis N δ ...

The proximate composition, amino acids and fatty acids composition in the muscle of wild, inshore and offshore cage-cultured large yellow croaker, Pseudosciaena crocea (Richardson, 1846), were determined to identify nutritional differences. Wild fish groups showed highest content of moisture and crude protein, but the lowest lipid content. Offshore cage-cultured fish showed significantly higher...

Sciaenid fishes are important models of fish sound production, but investigations into their auditory abilities are limited to acoustic pressure measurements on five species. In this study, we used auditory brainstem response (ABR) to assess the pressure and particle acceleration thresholds of six sciaenid fishes commonly found in Chesapeake Bay, eastern USA: weakfish (Cynoscion regalis), spott...

Maintaining optimal visual performance is a difficult task in the photodynamic coastal and estuarine waters in which western North Atlantic sciaenid fishes support substantial commercial and recreational fisheries. Unavoidable tradeoffs exist between visual sensitivity and resolution, yet sciaenid visual systems have not been characterized despite strong species-specific ecomorphological and mi...

During surveys of parasites of the whitemouth croaker Micropogonias furnieri (Desmarest) and the mullet Mugil platanus Günther from Samborombón Bay, Argentina, Trichodina puytoraci, T. lepsii, T. jadranica, T. murmanica, Diparitella simplex and Trichodina scalensis sp. n. were morphologically studied. Taxonomic and morphometric data for these trichodinids based on dry silver nitrate-impregnated...

As the Chinese national fish, large yellow croaker (Pseudosciaena crocea) can generate intermittent sounds. In this study, the acoustic characteristics of the sound signals recorded from three groups of net-cage-cultured large yellow croaker at different ages (7-8-month old, 13-15-month old, and 3-years old) were investigated. The exponential oscillation function derived from the speech signal ...

A study was performed in order to validate ELISAs for the differentiation of FMDV-infected cattle from those that had merely been vaccinated. Sets of sera from naive and from vaccinated animals as well as from cattle that had been vaccinated and subsequently infected were tested for antibodies to nonstructural proteins (NSPs) of FMDV in a commercial test, the Chekit FMD-3ABC bo-ov (Bommeli/Inte...

The adductor pectoral fin muscle in post-spawning females of the white croaker Micropogonias furnieri (Desmarest, 1823) is described from a morphological, histochemical and morphometric perspectives. A description of the morphological characteristics was conducted after dissections in different layers, down to the deep layer. Five muscles were found: superficial, medial, radial and deep adducto...