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dc.contributor.authorGallardo, Wenresti G.
dc.contributor.authorHagiwara, Atsushi
dc.contributor.authorSnell, Terry W.
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-07T09:52:13Z
dc.date.available2014-01-07T09:52:13Z
dc.date.issued2000
dc.identifier.citationGallardo, W. G., Hagiwara, A., & Snell, T. W. (2000). Effect of juvenile hormone and serotonin (5-HT) on mixis induction of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis Muller. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 252(1), 97-107.en
dc.identifier.issn0022-0981
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10862/1871
dc.description.abstractJuvenile hormone (JH) and serotonin (5-HT) were previously shown to enhance mictic (sexual) female production of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis in batch cultures. To explore the basis of these effects, experiments were conducted on isolated individuals. JH treatment of maternal rotifers with 5 and 50 µg ml-1 (18.8 and 187.7 µM) resulted in significantly higher (P < 0.05) mictic female production in the second (F2) and third (F3) generations. JH treatment was effective even at a lower food concentration of 7 × 105 cells ml, but it was not effective when free ammonia was added at 2.4 and 3.1 µg ml-1. Mictic female production was not increased with exposure to 5-HT up to 50 µg ml-1 (129.1 µM) concentrations. When food level was reduced to 7 × 105 cells ml-1, however, 5-HT-treated rotifers produced significantly (P < 0.05) more mictic females than the control, particularly in F3 generation. Mictic female production of 5-HT-treated rotifers did not differ from that of the control with or without free ammonia, but the intrinsic rate of natural increase (r) of 5-HT-treated rotifers at 3.1 µg ml-1 free ammonia was significantly higher than the control. These results show that juvenile hormone increases mictic female production under optimum and sub-optimum food levels, whereas 5-HT increases both mictic female production at low food level and population growth rate at high free ammonia concentrations. These compounds could be used to manage rotifer cultures and probe the mechanisms controlling the rotifer life cycle as it switches to mictic reproduction.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis study was supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan (No. 10660187) and by a grant from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries of Japan (ED-99-II-3-2).en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.subjectBrachionus plicatilisen
dc.subjectRotiferaen
dc.subjectMictic femaleen
dc.subjectjuvenile hormonesen
dc.subject5-Hydroxytryptamineen
dc.subjectFree ammoniaen
dc.subjectFood levelen
dc.titleEffect of juvenile hormone and serotonin (5-HT) on mixis induction of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis Mulleren
dc.typeArticleen
dc.citation.volume252
dc.citation.issue1
dc.citation.spage97
dc.citation.epage107
dc.citation.journalTitleJournal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecologyen
dc.subject.asfaammoniaen
dc.subject.asfafood availabilityen
dc.subject.asfahormonesen
dc.subject.asfajuvenilesen
dc.subject.asfalife cycleen
dc.subject.asfareproductionen
dc.subject.asfasexual reproductionen
dc.subject.asfaasexual reproductionen
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/S0022-0981(00)00240-9


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