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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES
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CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1139/cjfas-2023-0032
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Baltic herring; egg quality; maternal effects; climate change; thyroid hormones
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Temperature has an effect on the reproductive success and development of Baltic herring. Elevated temperature results in a faster developmental rate, lower early-stage mortality and hatching success, smaller size-at-hatch, larger yolk sac size, and a higher amount of larval malformations. Maternal traits are also associated with egg and offspring traits.
Temperature modifies the reproductive success of fish, yet, in many species, we lack the information on its role in the early development. In this study, the effect of temperature on the relation between maternal traits (length, age, somatic condition, and muscle lipid and ovarian thyroid hormone concentrations), egg quality (fertilization success, development rate, mortality, and hatching success), and offspring traits (size-at-hatch, yolk sac size, and proportion of malformations) were studied in Baltic herring (Clupea harengus membras) in the northern Baltic Sea. The experiments were conducted at an ambient temperature of 7 degrees C and at an elevated temperature of 14 degrees C using 5 to 10 females and 3 replicates per female. The results indicate that elevated temperature may result in a faster developmental rate, a lower early-stage mortality and hatching success, smaller size-at-hatch, a larger yolk sac size, and a higher amount of larval malformations when compared to an ambient temperature. The egg and offspring traits were also associated with the maternal traits, indicating especially that thyroid hormones play a mediating role in the physiological processes.
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