GONAD DIFFERENTIATION AND BODY GROWTH IN ANGUILLA-ANGUILLA L
GONAD DIFFERENTIATION AND BODY GROWTH IN ANGUILLA-ANGUILLA L
复制标题
DOI:
10.1111/j.1095-8649.1984.tb04792.x
复制
发表时间:
1984-01-01
影响因子:
2
通讯作者:
ROSSI, R
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
COLOMBO, G;GRANDI, G;ROSSI, R
Using histological sections, the gonads of samples of yellow and silver eels of 2 populations were examined. The populations were previously analyzed for growth and sex ratio. The histological structures observed are similar to those described in previous publications for the European eel, A. anguilla and to those indicated for the Pacific eel, A. japonica. Well-differentiated gonads are present in the silver eels. In the yellow eels, ranging in age from 0+ to 2+ yr and from a length of 20 cm to that at which they become silver, undifferentiated and both sex gonads are found. The ovary, found even in young and small eels, is completely differentiated at a very early stage. The testis-like gonad of the yellow eel is a more primitive, and possibly reversible, gonad which differentiates completely at the beginning of sexual maturation and the change to the silver phase.