One of the major objectives of the aquaculture industry is the production of a large number of
viable eggs with high survival. Major achievements have been made in recent years in …

The production of fertile eggs with the capacity to develop into larvae and subsequently into
marketable fish is centrally important to the aquaculture industry. This entails not only the …

Abstract Knowledge of fish reproduction is of high relevance to basic fish biology and
comparative evolution. Furthermore, fish are excellent biomedical models, and the impact of …

Puberty is the period in the vertebrate life cycle that marks the transition from sexual
immaturity to maturity, enabling an animal to acquire adult reproductive functions. Puberty …

Although estrogens have been generally considered to play a critical role in ovarian
differentiation in non-mammalian vertebrates, the specific functions of estrogens during …

Among external factors, temperature is known to exhibit a prominent role in reproduction of
temperate fish species. Here, temperature related induction of puberty in pikeperch Sander …

As in other vertebrates, fish reproduction is tightly controlled by gonadotropin signaling. One
of the most perplexing aspects of gonadotropin action on germ cell biology is the restricted …

Abstract The European eel migrates 5,000–6,000 km to the Sargasso Sea to reproduce.
Because they venture into the ocean in a pre-pubertal state and reproduce after swimming …

Reproductive performances, and the factors affecting them, are of major importance
especially for farmed fish in the context of the development of a sustainable aquaculture …

The aim of this study was to evaluate whether effects of environmental estrogens on fish
growth and reproduction may be mediated via modulating the growth hormone (GH)/insulin …