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Title: Identification of Sex and Female's Reproductive Stage in Commercial Fish Species through the Quantification of Ribosomal Transcripts in Gonads
Authors: Rojo-Bartolome, Iratxe; de Cerio, Oihane Diaz; Diez, Guzman; Cancio, Ibon
Abstract: The estimation of maturity and sex of fish stocks in European waters is a requirement of the EU Data Collection Framework as part of the policy to improve fisheries management. On the other hand, research on fish biology is increasingly focused in molecular approaches, researchers needing correct identification of fish sex and reproductive stage without necessarily having in house the histological know-how necessary for the task. Taking advantage of the differential gene transcription occurring during fish sex differentiation and gametogenesis, the utility of 5S ribosomal RNA (5S rRNA) and General transcription factor IIIA (gtf3a) in the molecular identification of sex and gametogenic stage was tested in different economically-relevant fish species from the Bay of Biscay. Gonads of 9 fish species (, Atlantic, Atlantic-chub and horse mackerel, blue whiting, bogue, European anchovy, hake and pilchard and megrim), collected from local commercial fishing vessels were histologically sexed and 5S and 18S rRNA concentrations were quantified by capillary electrophoresis to calculate a 5S/18S rRNA index. Degenerate primers permitted cloning and sequencing of gtf3a fragments in 7 of the studied species. 5S rRNA and gtf3a transcript levels, together with 5S/18S rRNA index, distinguished clearly ovaries from testis in all of the studied species. The values were always higher in females than in males. 5S/18S rRNA index values in females were always highest when fish were captured in early phases of ovary development whilst, in later vitellogenic stages, the values decreased significantly. In megrim and European anchovy, where gonads in different oogenesis stages were obtained, the 5S/18S rRNA index identified clearly gametogenic stage. This approach, to the sexing and the quantitative non-subjective identification of the maturity stage of female fish, could have multiple applications in the study of fish stock dynamics, fish reproduction and fecundity and fish biology in general.
Keywords: FACTOR-IIIA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION; BIOCHEMICAL RESEARCH; GENE-EXPRESSION; XENOPUS OOCYTES; RNA; TFIIIA; NORMALIZATION; OOGENESIS
Issue Date: 2016
Publisher: PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
Type: Article
Language: English
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149711
URI: http://dspace.azti.es/handle/24689/169
ISSN: 1932-6203
Funder: University of the Basque Country, Basque Government
Spanish MINECO \[UFI 11/3, S-PE11UN007, S-PE12UN086, S-PE13UN101, IT810-13, AGL2012-33477]
Basque Government
Appears in Publication types:Artículos científicos



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