Journal
AQUACULTURE
Volume 479, Issue -, Pages 474-478Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2017.06.012
Keywords
Atlantic salmon; Temperature; Reproduction; Gene expression; Ovarian steroidogenesis
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- Australian Fisheries Research and Development Corporation [2008/217]
- Australian Seafood Cooperative Research Centre [2008/762, 2010/719]
- Salmon Enterprises of Tasmania Pty. Ltd. (SALTAS)
- University of the Sunshine Coast
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Thermal challenge typically results in lowered plasma 17 beta-estradiol and 17,20 beta-dihydroxy-4-pregnen-3-one, and is associated with poor reproductive performance in commercially important female Atlantic salmon. The aim of the present study was to gauge the thermal sensitivity of genes crucial to ovarian steroidogenesis, and determine how they fit into this endocrine response in reproductive fish of different ages. Exposure to higherthan- normal temperature (22 vs 14 degrees C) did not significantly impact the expression of forkhead transcription factor or follicle stimulating hormone receptor (fshr) during peak vitellogenesis, although, fshr was lower in thermally challenged maiden fish in the lead up to final oocyte maturation. For the first time, we have demonstrated the temperature-dependent down-regulation of ovarian steroidogenic acute regulatory protein and 3 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase in the month preceding ovulation, and now have a better understanding of the mechanism underlying the inability of thermally exposed fish to recover after temperature reduction prior to final oocyte maturation.
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