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Histological Study of the Sex-Change in the Skunk Clownfish Amphiprion akallopisos

Sex change in the protandrous fish Amphiprion akallopisos Bleeker, 1853 (F.Pomacentridae) has been analysed. Experiments consisted of placing males together after being separated from their mates, and observe changes in gonad histology at different periods, in order to identify signs of the sex change process. The presence of a first invagination on the male gonad wall, and the observation of the first cortical alveoli oocytes as an indication of the beginning of the vitellogenesis process, was the first symptom of the sex change, which has been detected after 18 days in one of the males. Period needed for the sex changing process was size independent. The process by which wall invagination is converted into ovarian lumen in the future mature ovary is also described

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Author: Casadevall, Margarida
Delgado Sureda, EulĂ lia
Colleye, Orphal
Ber Monserrat, Samuel
Parmentier, Eric
Abstract: Sex change in the protandrous fish Amphiprion akallopisos Bleeker, 1853 (F.Pomacentridae) has been analysed. Experiments consisted of placing males together after being separated from their mates, and observe changes in gonad histology at different periods, in order to identify signs of the sex change process. The presence of a first invagination on the male gonad wall, and the observation of the first cortical alveoli oocytes as an indication of the beginning of the vitellogenesis process, was the first symptom of the sex change, which has been detected after 18 days in one of the males. Period needed for the sex changing process was size independent. The process by which wall invagination is converted into ovarian lumen in the future mature ovary is also described
Document access: http://hdl.handle.net/2072/217596
Language: eng
Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers
Rights: Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Spain
Rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/es/
Subject: Amphiprion akallopisos
Peixos -- Histologia
Fishes -- Histology
Title: Histological Study of the Sex-Change in the Skunk Clownfish Amphiprion akallopisos
Type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Repository: Recercat

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