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BIOLOGY OPEN
卷 1, 期 4, 页码 391-396出版社
COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/bio.2012398
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Fecundity; Reproductive efficiency; Seahorses; Hippocampus erectus
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资金
- Innovation Program of Young Scientists of Chinese Academy of Sciences [KZCX2-EW-QN206]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30901109]
- Guangdong Oceanic and Fisheries Science and Technology Foundation [A200901E06, A201001D05]
- Science and Technology Program of Guangdong Province [2011B020307005]
Seahorses are the vertebrate group with the embryonic development occurring within a special pouch in males. To understand the reproductive efficiency of the lined seahorse, Hippocampus erectus Perry, 1810 under controlled breeding experiments, we investigated the dynamics of reproductive rate, offspring survivorship and growth over births by the same male seahorses. The mean brood size of the 1-year old pairs in the 1st birth was 85.4 +/- 56.9 per brood, which was significantly smaller than that in the 6th birth (465.9 +/- 136.4 per brood) (P<0.001). The offspring survivorship and growth rate increased with the births. The fecundity was positively correlated with the length of brood pouches of males and trunk of females. The fecundity of 1-year old male and 2-year old female pairs was significantly higher than that from 1-year old couples (P<0.001). The brood size (552.7 +/- 150.4) of the males who mated with females that were isolated for the gamete-preparation, was larger than those (467.8 +/- 141.2) from the long-term pairs (P<0.05). Moreover, the offspring from the isolated females had higher survival and growth rates. Our results showed that the potential reproductive rate of seahorses H. erectus increased with the brood pouch development. (C) 2012. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0).
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