In vitro culture of embryonic hearts from guppy fish (Poecilia reticulata)

Forty embryonic hearts were taken out by anatomical needle from denuded embryos of the ovoviviparity guppy fish that were dechorioned by mechanic method or by trypsin digestion, and were in vitro cultured. In the cultured hearts, 80% have maintained beating in vitro for 4 weeks, and the longest record for beating was 142 d. Owing to fish embryo transparency, beating frequency and blood color changes are easily viewed from the embryonic hearts under a dissecting microscope. The current study established the in vitro culture method of embryonic hearts in guppy fish, which can be used as a model for the study of heart and cardiovascular system in vertebrates.

江西彭泽鲫生殖方式的初步研究

<正> 雌核发育是动物界中一种少有的生殖方式。在鱼类中迄今已发现Poecilia formosa,Menidiaclarkhubbsi是行雌核发育的单性鱼类,欧洲的银鲫(Carassius auratus gibelio)。Poeciliopsis属的某些类型亦是行雌核发育的。近10余年来,我国继发现黑龙江省方正县双风水库的银鲫是两

鱼类的人工雌核生殖

<正> 雌核生殖(gynogenesis)是单性生殖(parthenogenesis)的一种,指卵子依靠自己的细胞核直接发育成个体的生殖行为。自然界实行雌核生殖的动物有:蜜蜂、蚂蚁、蚜虫,水蚤、轮虫、丰年虫、银鲫、食蚊鱼(Poecilliopsis)的一些种类(如花鳉Poecilia formosa)等等。

Development of a rapid, sensitive and specific diagnostic assay for fish Aquareovirus based on RT-PCR

A rapid, sensitive and highly specific detection method for Aquareovirus based on reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) was developed. Based on multiple sequence alignment of the cloned sequences of a local isolates, the Threadfin reovirus (TFV) and Guppy reovirus (GPV) with Grass carp reovirus (GCRV), a pair of degenerate primers was selected carefully and synthesized. Using this primer combination, only one specific product, approximately 450 bp in length was obtained when RT-PCR was carried out using the genomic double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) of TFV, GPV and GCRV. Similar results were also obtained when Chum salmon reovirus (CSRV) and Striped bass reovirus (SBRV) dsRNA were used as templates. No products were observed when nucleic acids other than the dsRNA of the aquareoviruses described above were used as RT-PCR templates. This technique could detect not only TFV but also GPV and GCRV in low titer virus-infected cell cultured cells. Furthermore, this method has also been shown to be able to diagnose GPV-infected guppy (Poecilia reticulata) that exhibit clinical symptoms as well as GPV-carrier guppy. Collectively, these results showed that the RT-PCR amplification method using specific degenerate primers described below is very useful for rapid and accurate detection of a variety of aquareovirus strains isolated from different host species and origin. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.