Journal
JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY
Volume 91, Issue 1, Pages 126-143Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jfb.13332
Keywords
annual killifish; Aplocheiloidei; chorion; egg envelope; zona pellucida
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- George Maier Fund of the American Killifish Association
- Cosmos Scholars Grant from the Cosmos Club of Washington D.C.
- NSF, National Science Foundation
- DDIG, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant [DEB-1406537]
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This study investigates zona pellucida (ZP) ultrastructure in fertilized eggs of annual killifishes (suborder Aplocheiloidei), a group of highly specialized fishes that are able to survive desiccation for several weeks to months before they hatch. Little is known about ZP or chorionic ultrastructure sustaining these life-history modes, so scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used to describe this trait in a large number of aplocheiloids with a focus on the family Rivulidae and the genus Hypsolebias. New images of ZP ultrastructure for 52 aplocheiloid species are provided, more than doubling the number characterized thus far. The evolution of chorionic structure within this group is studied using these new data. Characters were coded into a morphological matrix and optimized onto a consensus phylogeny to assess phylogenetic signal and reconstruct ancestral character states. Although ZP characters seem highly homoplastic and exhibit a large amount of structural convergence among lineages, aplocheiloid killifishes have evolved a number of unique structures associated with the chorion. Some annual species seem to have lost long filaments because eggs are deposited in the soil instead of being adhered to aquatic plants.
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