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Basic Methods for the Study of Reproductive Ecology of Fish in Aquaria
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2017
A series of basic methods to enable the study of the reproductive ecology of fish kept in aquaria are described. These are useful protocols for collecting fish using SCUBA, transporting live fish, and observing the reproductive behavior of wild-caught fish kept in aquaria.
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Osmoregulation in Fishes
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2019
When cells are placed in a hypotonic (low-salt) fluid, they can swell and burst. Meanwhile, cells in a hypertonic solution—with a higher salt concentration—can shrivel and die. How do fish cells avoid these gruesome fates in hypotonic freshwater or hypertonic seawater environments? Fish employ osmoregulatory strategies to balance bodily levels of water and dissolved ions (i.e., solutes), such as sodium and chloride. Imagine two solutions separated by a membrane that is permeable to water.
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Swimming Performance Assessment in Fishes
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2011
The lives of the majority of fish are predicated on swimming. This protocol describes techniques for capturing a range of swimming modes available to individual and schooling fish, and includes metrics associated with swimming physiology and behaviour.
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Necropsy-based Wild Fish Health Assessment
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2018
The health of wild fishes can be used as an indicator of aquatic ecosystem health. Necropsy-based fish health assessments provide documentation of visible lesions or abnormalities, data used to calculate condition indices as well as the opportunity to collect tissues for microscopic evaluation, gene expression and other more in-depth analyses.
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DNA-based Fish Species Identification Protocol
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2010
This publication describes how to use the Agilent Fish Species Identification System to identify the species of a fish by extracting DNA and performing PCR and RFLP analysis.
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The casper phenotype arises when mutations eliminate or greatly reduce two pigment-cell populations: melanophores, which produce dark coloration, and iridophores, which create reflective coloration. Removing these visual barriers makes internal structures easier to see while preserving a living vertebrate model. This combination connects a defined cellular change with an experimentally useful imaging trait.
Optical clarity allows investigators to observe internal tissues directly in living animals rather than relying only on removed or processed tissue. Researchers can therefore follow structures and cellular behaviors in real time, helping connect visible biological changes with development, disease progression, or treatment response. The same animal can also be observed repeatedly without repeated tissue removal.
Because their reduced pigmentation exposes internal structures, Casper fish allow observations to be linked with ongoing biological events rather than a single endpoint. This is useful when the research question concerns changes over time, such as developing tissues, blood-vessel behavior, tumor progression, or movement of immune cells. The model therefore supports dynamic rather than exclusively static analysis.
In developmental studies, Casper fish make internal tissues accessible for observation while the animal remains alive. The same imaging advantage applies to blood vessels, allowing researchers to examine vascular structures and changes as biological processes proceed. These observations can help relate visible tissue-level patterns to underlying cellular events without requiring repeated removal of tissue from the animal.
Their transparency enables researchers to observe tumors and immune-cell behavior within a living vertebrate context. This can reveal how disease-related tissues change and how immune cells behave in relation to those changes. Such observations are valuable for linking cellular activity with disease progression, rather than examining tumor or immune phenomena only after isolation from the animal.
Casper fish provide a visible living system in which researchers can monitor responses to drugs alongside changes in internal tissues. Their optical clarity also supports testing imaging-based research methods because investigators can assess how effectively those methods capture biological events. This combination makes the model relevant to both treatment-response studies and development of approaches for observing disease processes.