Sirtuins have received widespread attention due to their diverse physiological role in metabolism. Among sirtuins, SIRT2 is more abundant in adipocytes and exerts effects on adipocyte differentiation, a process which involves conversion of preadipocytes to mature adipocytes orchestrated by adipokines and adipogenic transcription factors. Grey mullet (Mugil cephalus) was chosen as a study organi...

The striped mullet (Mugil cephalus L.) is distributed circumglobally in tropical and semitropical waters between latitudes 42°N and 42°S (Thomson, 1963; Rossi et al., 1998). Even though considered a marine species, striped mullet are euryhaline and can be found year round throughout the full range of estuarine salinities in the southeastern United States (Jacot, 1920; Anderson, 1958). Striped m...

Keywords Wolves, genome-wide phylogeny, canid evolution.. CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license not peer-reviewed) is the author/funder. It is made available under a The copyright holder for this preprint (which was. Abstract Here we present the first genomic data for the African wolf (Canis aureus lupaster) and conclusively demonstrate that it is a unique taxon and not a hybrid between other c...

objective: changes in chloride cell abundance, na+, k+-atpase immunolocalization and activity were investigated in the gills of the golden grey mullet, liza aurata, fry acclimated to freshwater (fw) and different salinities (12‰, 36‰ and 46‰). materials and methods: na+, k+-atpase localization was performed through immunofluorescence light microscopy using a mouse monoclonal antibody iggα5. qua...

An important, but underappreciated, consequence of climate change is the reduction in crucial nutrient production at base marine food chain: long-chain omega-3 highly unsaturated fatty acids (n-3 HUFA). This can have dramatic consequences on consumers, such as fish they limited capacity to synthesise n-3 HUFA de novo. The HUFA, docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, 22:6n-3) and eicosapentaenoic (EPA, 20:5...

Fish collected after a mass mortality at an artificial lake in south-east Queensland, Australia, were examined for the presence of nodularin as the lake had earlier been affected by a Nodularia bloom. Methanol extracts of muscle, liver, peritoneal and stomach contents were analysed by HPLC and tandem mass spectrometry; histological examination was conducted on livers from captured mullet. Liver...