| transcriptomic analysis of the head kidney of topmouth culter (culter alburnus) infected with flavobacterium columnare with an emphasis on phagosome pathway. | flavobacterium columnare (fc) has caused worldwide fish columnaris disease with high mortality and great economic losses in cultured fish, including topmouth culter (culter alburnus). however, the knowledge about the host factors involved in fc infection is little known. in this study, the transcriptomic profiles of the head kidney from topmouth culter with or without fc infection were obtained using hiseq™ 2500 (illumina). totally 79,641 unigenes with high quality were obtained. among them, 403 ... | 2016 | 27601296 |
| metal concentrations in various fish organs of different fish species from poyang lake, china. | concentrations of as, cd, cr, cu, hg, ni, pb, and zn in the muscle of eleven fish species (bighead carp, bream, catfish, carp, crucian, culter alburnus, grass carp, mandarin fish, white semiknife carp, silver carp, and yellow catfish) from poyang lake were analysed using inductive coupling plasma mass spectrometry. metal levels in other organs (e.g., bladder, gill, kidney, liver, and spleen) of bighead carp, carp, grass carp, and silver carp were also determined. the results showed that metal co ... | 2014 | 24681447 |
| new data on the morphology of some far-eastern species of rhabdochona (nematoda: rhabdochonidae), as revealed by sem observations. | specimens of the nematode genus rhabdochona railliet, 1916 (rhabdochonidae) were collected during helminthological examination of four species of cyprinid fishes in two rivers of the amur river basin in the russian far east (primorsky region) in june 2011. detailed light microscopical (lm) and scanning electron microscopical (sem) examinations (the latter used for the first time for the reported nematode species) of the available material revealed the presence of three inadequately described nom ... | 2012 | 23136800 |
| comparative analysis of the complete mitochondrial genomes of three geographical topmouth culter (culter alburnus) groups and implications for their phylogenetics. | topmouth culter (c. alburnus) is an important commercial fish in china. we compared the nucleotide variations in the mtdna genomes among three geographical groups of culter alburnus: liangzi lake, hubei province (referred to as lzh); taihu lake, jiangsu province (th); and poyang lake, jiangxi province (pyh). the similarity of whole mtdna genomes ranged from 0.992 to 0.999. the similarity among 13 protein-coding genes, 2 rrna genes, and the d-loop sequences was found to range from 0.982 to 0.996. ... | 2017 | 28067596 |
| unique nucleolar dominance patterns in distant hybrid lineage derived from megalobrama amblycephala × culter alburnus. | nucleolar dominance is an epigenetic phenomenon that occurs in interspecific hybrids and involves the expression of 45s rrna genes inherited from one progenitor due to the silencing of the other progenitor's rrna genes. in this paper, changes in the genetics and expression of 45s rrna genes in f1 and f2 hybrid progeny of blunt snout bream (bsb, megalobrama amblycephala) × topmouth culter (tc, culter alburnus) are investigated. | 2016 | 27919229 |
| development of transcript-associated microsatellite markers in ancherythoculter nigrocauda and cross-amplification in culter alburnus. | twenty-eight polymorphic microsatellite markers were developed from the transcriptome of ancherythoculter nigrocauda. these loci were used to characterize the genotypes of 48 individuals. the observed number of alleles per locus ranged from 5 to 11, with an average of 7.7. expected and observed heterozygosities ranged from 0.437 to 0.978 and from 0.373 to 1.000, respectively. four of these polymorphic microsatellite loci (hwb14, hwb18, hwb24, and hwb30) deviated significantly from the hardy-wein ... | 2015 | 26600486 |
| global transcriptional and mirna insights into bases of heterosis in hybridization of cyprinidae. | hybrid megalobrama amblycephala × culter alburnus represents a population newly formed by interspecific crossing between two different genera. here we assessed the expression pattern of mrna and small rna in newly formed f1, f2 and their progenitors. large amounts of nonadditively expressed protein-coding genes showed parental expression level dominance (eld). interestingly, the eld pattern could inherit from f1 to f2, which guaranteed a stable appearance in progenies. the eld-b genes were found ... | 2015 | 26346824 |
| polymorphisms in a myostatin gene and associations with growth in a hybrid of culter alburnus and ancherythroculter nigrocauda. | myostatin (mstn) is a member of the transforming growth factor-β superfamily that negatively regulates skeletal muscle development and growth. in the present study, partial genomic fragments of mstn were screened for single nucleotide polymorphisms (snps) in a hybrid of culter alburnus (♀) x ancherythroculter nigro-cauda (♂) individuals from a commercial hatchery population, and two non-synonymous snps (c.6t>c and c.162g>a) and two synonymous snps (c.152g>a and c.155g>a) in exon 2 were identifie ... | 2015 | 26125759 |
| the fertility of the hybrid lineage derived from female megalobrama amblycephala × male culter alburnus. | distant hybridization can combine together the genomes of different species, which leads to changes of the offspring in phenotypes and genotypes. in this study, we successfully establish a fertile hybrid lineage by intergeneric hybridization of female blunt snout bream (bsb, megalobrama amblycephala) × male topmouth culter (tc, culter alburnus) and investigate some important biological traits of this lineage including the morphological traits, chromosomal number, karyotype, dna content, gonadal ... | 2014 | 25287724 |
| isolation and characterization of 32 microsatellite loci for topmouth culter (culter alburnus basilewsky). | the topmouth culter (culter alburnus) is an economically important freshwater fish, which is widely distributed throughout large rivers, reservoirs, and lake areas of china. we report here the isolation and characterization of 32 new polymorphic microsatellite loci isolated from genomic dna in this species enriched by (ca)12 and (ga)12 probes. the variability of these microsatellites was tested on 30 individuals cultured. the average allele number was 6.6 per locus, ranging from 3 to 12. the obs ... | 2014 | 25222247 |
| the complete mitochondrial genome of the hybrid of culter alburnus (♀) × ancherythroculter nigrocauda (♂). | in this study, the complete mitochondrial genome sequence of the hybrid of culter alburnus (♀) × ancherythroculter nigrocauda (♂) was determined and analyzed for the first time. the total length of the mitogenome is 16,621 bp, with the base composition of 31.20% a, 24.78% t, 27.78% c, and 16.24% g. it contains the typical structure as that of most other vertebrates, including 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer rna genes, 2 ribosomal rna genes and 2 main non-coding regions (the origin of the li ... | 2016 | 25028789 |
| the complete mitochondrial genome sequence of xingkai topmouth culter (culter alburnus). | the complete sequence of the mitochondrial genome of culter alburnus was determined to be 16,622 bp in length by sanger sequencing technology, and to contain 13 protein-coding genes (pcgs), 22 trna genes and 2 ribosomal genes. its total a + t content is 55.99%. 6 csbs (csb-1, csb-2, csb-3, csb-d, csb-e and csb-f) and 1tas were identified in the control region; the control region also included a 2 bp tandem repeat with 8 repeat times. | 2014 | 23841616 |
| development of new polymorphic microsatellite markers in topmouth culter (culter alburnus) and determination of their applicability in culter mongolicus. | fifteen new polymorphic microsatellite markers were developed for culter alburnus. in 32 individuals representing a wild population of the danjiangkou reservoir, hubei, china, the number of alleles at these loci varied between 2 and 10, with an average of 5.5. the average observed and expected heterozygosities were 0.664 and 0.681, respectively. the polymorphism information content of 11 loci was more than 0.5 whereas that of the other 4 loci was less than 0.5 but more than 0.25. in addition, th ... | 2013 | 23765982 |
| anatomical and histological characteristics of the intestine of the topmouth culter (culter alburnus). | with 3 figures and 1 table | 2011 | 21434980 |
| [individual fecundity of culter alburnus in xujiahe reservoir of china]. | in april - june 2008, the matured female culter alburnus specimens were collected from the xujiahe reservoir of china. their ages were identified by the scales, and their body length, body mass, gonad mass, and other morphological indices were measured. counted with gravimetric method, the individual absolute fecundity was obtained, and used for calculating the relative fecundity per centimetre, relative fecundity per gram, maturity, relative fatness, and other indices. based on these measuremen ... | 2009 | 19947217 |
| molecular characterization of trypsinogens and development of trypsinogen gene expression and tryptic activities in grass carp (ctenopharyngodon idellus) and topmouth culter (culter alburnus). | this study examined the gene structures and expression of trypsinogens, as well as the trypsin activities of the grass carp ctenopharyngodon idellus (herbivorous) and the topmouth culter culter alburnus (carnivorous), which are commercially important freshwater species of the family cyprinidae in china. isolated full-length trypsinogen cdna clones were 869 bp and 857 bp. the deduced amino acid sequences were 242aa and 247aa long, both containing the highly conserved residues essential for serine ... | 2010 | 19854290 |