The growth and reproductive endocrinology of adult triploid Pacific salmonids |
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| Authors: | Tillmann J Benfey Helen M Dye Igor I Solar Edward M Donaldson |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Biological Sciences Branch, West Vancouver Laboratory, 4160 Marine Drive, V7V 1N6 West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
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| Abstract: | This paper describes the effect of triploidy on growth and reproductive endocrinology in the months leading up to and including spawning in rainbow trout,Salmo gairdneri, and pink salmon,Oncorhynchus gorbuscha. Growth rates were the same for diploid and triploid rainbow trout, but triploid female pink salmon were smaller than maturing diploid females and diploid and triploid males of the same age. Triploid males of both species developed typical secondary sexual characteristics and had normal endocrine profiles, although their cycle appeared to be delayed by about one month. Triploid females remained silvery in appearance and showed no endocrine signs of maturation, even at the level of the pituitary. Thus, although triploids of both sexes are genetically sterile, only the females do not undergo physiological maturation.Reported in part at the Third International Symposium on Reproductive Physiology of Fish, St. John's, Newfoundland, August 2–7, 1987. |
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| Keywords: | growth endocrinology reproduction triploid salmonid sterilization aquaculture |
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