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Comparative Histological Analysis of Intestines of Loach, Grass Carp and Catfish Provide Insights into Adaptive Characteristics in Air-Breathing Fish
- Source :
- Croatian Journal of Fisheries, Vol 78, Iss 2, Pp 91-98 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2020.
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Abstract
- Accessory respiratory is generally accepted to have evolved independently on numerous occasions in adaption to aquatic hypoxia in freshwater habitats. In general, the air-breathing organ in fish is believed to be structurally modified to supplement respiration. In this study, intuitive evidence for elaborate structural modifications of the intestine, an air-breathing organ in mud loach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus), compared with two other obligate aquatic breathers, grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus) and yellow catfish (Pelteobagrus fulvidraco), were directly provided by histological and morphometric methods. As a result, a sharply decreasing height of mucosal folds and thickness of muscularis were manifested in loach intestine from its anterior to posterior region. Compared with grass carp and yellow catfish, loach had the smallest ratios of mucosal fold height/muscularis thickness to intestinal lumen radius in the posterior intestine. These suggested that the posterior intestine is the air-breathing location for the loach. Furthermore, length density of capillary (0.46±0.05 μm−2) in the posterior intestine of the loach was significantly higher than those of grass carp and yellow catfish. Meanwhile, diffusion distance of air-blood barrier (1.34±0.04 μm) in the posterior intestine of the loach was significantly smaller than those of the other two fish species. In summary, the characteristics of highly vascularized, short diffusion distance of air-blood barrier, thinned and flattened made the posterior intestine a perfect air-breathing location for the loach.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
misgurnus anguillicaudatus
010607 zoology
SH1-691
Zoology
Misgurnus
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Aquatic Science
Pelteobagrus
01 natural sciences
03 medical and health sciences
Respiration
Aquaculture. Fisheries. Angling
Respiratory system
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Air breathing
030304 developmental biology
0303 health sciences
Ecology
biology
intestinal structures
ctenopharyngodon idellus
biology.organism_classification
pelteobagrus fulvidraco
Grass carp
Fish
air-breathing
Catfish
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18480586
- Volume :
- 78
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Croatian Journal of Fisheries
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....700157ff6a6a7578b7c9fd446c5c5424