Lunar Synchronization of Fish Reproduction
作者:
MalcolmH. Taylor,
期刊:
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
(Taylor Available online 1984)
卷期:
Volume 113,
issue 4
页码: 484-493
ISSN:0002-8487
年代: 1984
DOI:10.1577/1548-8659(1984)113<484:LSOFR>2.0.CO;2
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Lunar-synchronized spawning has been reported in four orders of fish. Salmoniform, atheriniform, and tetraodontiform species spawn intertidally on spring tides, leaving their eggs exposed to air between tidal inundations. This spawning mechanism may be essential to survival of species that are residents of areas such as tide marshes where dissolved-oxygen concentrations in the water column can be near zero. Spawning cycles of both lunar and semilunar periods have been reported in coral-reef fishes of the Perciformes. Reproduction by these fishes does not include aerial incubation of eggs. It has been hypothesized that the spawning cyclicity in these fishes synchronizes reproduction with moonlight or current conditions that enhance parental care or predator avoidance. The intertidal spawners that have been studied display cyclic changes in gonad maturity consistent with a semilunar periodicity in recruitment of oocytes into final maturation. Oocytes in the early stages of vitellogenesis are present throughout the spawning season. In the mummichog Fundulus heteroclitus, this periodicity is generated by an endogenous mechanism that operates in the absence of diurnal, lunar, or tidal periodicities in light or water movement. Indirect evidence exists for the involvement of both light-and tide-related phenomena in synchronization of semilunar reproductive rhythms in fishes.
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