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NEOTROPICAL ICHTHYOLOGY
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages 205-211Publisher
SOC BRASILEIRA ICTIOLOGIA
DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-20140028
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Asynchronous reproduction; Characidae; Gametogenesis; Gonadosomatic index; Histology
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- Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) [2010/17586-0, 2011/09567-8]
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Captive reproduction is one of the problems faced in aquaculture requiring the manipulation of environmental factors and/or hormonal treatment. Thus, we seek to verify experimentally which gonadal changes were present in mature individuals of Astyanax altiparanae arising from decreased water level. Collections were made every four hours, initiated four hours before and finished 28 hours after stimulation, at the Fish Farming Station of Companhia Energetica de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The gonads were analyzed by light microscopy. The females had ovaries in the spawning capable phase until 12h; in 16h, in a more advanced stage of spawning capable phase; and, from 20h, in the regressing phase. Males had testes in the spawning capable phase until 8h; in 12h, in a more advanced stage of spawning capable phase; and, from 16h, the return to the spawning capable phase. The morphological description was corroborated by the proportion of cell classes. Females presented variation on the gonadosomatic index, but it was not found an emptying of the gonad for neither sex. The process of inducing reproduction with water level drawdown was considered satisfactory, since both sexes presented a reduction in the number of mature gametes at the end of the sample period.
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