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Osmoregulatory capacity and muscle water control facing salinity stress of the Amazon fish Astronotus ocellatus (Cichlidae)

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2014-08-04
End Date
2014-08-15

Citation

Gutierre, S.M.M., Schulte, J.M., Schofield, P.J., and Prodocimo, V., 2017, Osmoregulatory capacity and muscle water control facing salinity stress of the Amazon fish Astronotus ocellatus (Cichlidae): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F77P8WK3.

Summary

Scientific tools such as physiological analysis are fundamental to understand invasive species tolerances and responses to different environmental conditions. The Amazon fish Astronotus ocellatus, popularly known as oscar, was introduced worldwide and became invasive in many places. Specimens of A. ocellatus were abruptly submitted to salt stress of 14 and 20 ppt, for 3 and 8 hours to analyze its plasma osmolality and muscle wet weight change. Fish in 14 ppt presented no osmolality distress even after 8 hours. In 20 ppt a slight increase (about 10%) in plasma osmolality was observed for both times of exposure. Fish muscle slices submitted to hyper-osmotic saline displayed decreased weight after 75 minutes, and slices submitted to hypo-osmotic [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Silvia Gutierre
Originator :
Silvia M.M. Gutierre, Jessica M Schulte, Pam Schofield, Viviane Prodocimo
Metadata Contact :
Mary E Brown
publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems
SDC Data Owner :
Wetland and Aquatic Research Center

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Astronotus_ocellatus_salinity_metadata.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		20.88 KB application/fgdc+xml
Sizes oscar.csv 706 Bytes text/csv
Osmolality oscar.csv 742 Bytes text/csv
Muscle weight oscar.csv 5.92 KB text/csv

Purpose

Data were obtained to better understand salinity tolerance and physiology of Astronotus ocellatus.

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  • USGS Data Release Products
  • USGS Wetland and Aquatic Research Center

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