scholarly journals The effects of laboratory housing and spatial enrichment on brain size and metabolic rate in the eastern mosquitofish,Gambusia holbrooki

Biology Open ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mischa P. Turschwell ◽  
Craig R. White
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Rate ◽  
Brain Size ◽  
Gambusia Holbrooki ◽  
Eastern Mosquitofish

Life History Changes in Eastern Mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) Induced by Thermal Elevation

1991 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary K. Meffe
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Life History ◽  
Nuclear Reactor ◽  
Natural Populations ◽  
Life History Evolution ◽  
Gambusia Holbrooki ◽  
Genetic Changes ◽  
Thermal Death ◽  
Reproductive Biomass ◽  
Eastern Mosquitofish

Much light can be shed on life history evolution through study of responses of organisms to chronic exposure to a novel or perturbed environment. To determine the influence of 28 yr of temporally unpredictable thermal elevation on their life history patterns, I sampled eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) from a thermally elevated (outflow from a nuclear reactor) and an ambient (farm pond) habitat in South Carolina every month for 2 yr. Fish from the artificially heated environment reproduced all year, had higher reproductive investments (higher clutch sizes and reproductive biomass), and smaller offspring than did fish from the ambient environment, which ceased reproduction from October through March, typical for natural populations of the region. Likely environmental factors responsible for these differences include unpredictable food resources, higher mortality from thermal death, and higher predation by fishes and birds in the heated waters. The extent to which these life history alterations are the result of adaptive genetic changes versus phenotypically plastic responses remains to be tested.

Lipid Dynamics during Reproduction in Two Livebearing Fishes, Gambusia holbrooki and Poecilia latipinna

1993 ◽  
Vol 50 (10) ◽  
pp. 2185-2191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary K. Meffe ◽  
Franklin F. Snelson Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Lipid Content ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Late Summer ◽  
Energy Allocation ◽  
Metabolic Efficiency ◽  
Gambusia Holbrooki ◽  
Poecilia Latipinna ◽  
Lipid Dynamics ◽  
Sailfin Molly ◽  
Eastern Mosquitofish

In animals, strategies of energy allocation among growth, maintenance and reproduction can be significantly altered by lipid storage. Poeciliid (livebearing) fishes store energy in late summer and fall for overwintering and first reproduction in spring, but details of energy use in reproduction are lacking. We conducted a laboratory experiment on the eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) and the sailfin molly (Poecilia latipinna) to document changes in lipid content in both the ovary and soma during development of a brood. In females of both species, ovarian lipid content was highest early in embryogeny and then declined; adult somatic lipids increased (were replenished) during embryonic development in mosquitofish, but declined in mollies. Larger clutches sequestered a larger share of body lipids in both species, possibly indicating energetic limits to reproduction. Finally, growth rate was positively correlated with somatic lipid content in both species, indicating among-individual differences in metabolic efficiency or feeding efficiency rather than a trade-off between growth and energy storage.

scholarly journals First record of Siamese twins in Eastern Mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki (Girard 1859)

Limnetica ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Raquel Moreno-Valcárcel ◽  
Ana Ruiz-Navarro ◽  
Mar Torralva ◽  
Francisco José Oliva-Paterna
Keyword(s):  
First Record ◽  
Gambusia Holbrooki ◽  
Siamese Twins ◽  
Eastern Mosquitofish
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