Histological changes in the organs and tissues of the gobiid fishes throughout the life-span-2 The hypophyseal target organs of the ice-goby, Leucopsarion petersii Hilgendorf
Histological changes in the organs and tissues of the gobiid fishes throughout the life-span-2 The hypophyseal target organs of the ice-goby, Leucopsarion petersii Hilgendorf
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虾虎鱼整个生命周期内器官和组织的组织学变化-2 冰虾虎鱼 (Leucopsarion petersii Hilgendorf) 的垂体靶器官
DOI:
10.11369/jji1950.17.29
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发表时间:
1970
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通讯作者:
Y. Honma
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作者:
E. Tamura;Y. Honma
Previously,Tamura and Honma traced the changes occurred in the histology of the hypothalamo-hypophyseal neurosecretory system of a small goby,Leucopsarion petersi,based on the materials collected in selected stages of their habitat from sea water to spawning ground in streams.The present study,with objectives to expand knowledge as to their mode of annual life especially on reproduction physiology,deals with histological changes traced along their migratory and reproductive activities in the thyroid,interrenal gland(adrenal cortical tissue)and gonads among the target organs of hypophysis.The thyroid appeared inactive in the fish in their sea life; its activity grew higher in those ascending stream in early season of their migration,and it lowered as season proceeded and showed the minimum in the latest migrants; all these facts suggested that the organ is not concerned with osmoregulatory function.The thyroid activity reached highest on two sexes at the spawning site though that of females still surpassed that of males and,as expected,the exhaustion of the gland activity was more accelerated in females.The interrenal gland showed a slight indication of regressive degeneration in the fish at the spawning site.The ovarian eggs, categorized synchronous,developed rapidly during the course of their ascending migration to the spawning ground.The spent ovary showed a number of ovulation scars,but ultimate corpus luteum was not found even in the fishes just died.The tubular testis of the present species lacks accessory gland such as seminal duct.The development of spermatozoa,asynchronous,reached the maximum in the fish arriving spawning site.The so-called relict spermatozoa were found in a considerable amount remaining in testicular lumen of the fish died after reproductive activity. Introduction As stated in Tamura and Honma(1969), the ice-goby,an annual fish dwelling entire coast of Japanese Islands,ascends the stream for spawning in spring,and dies several days after a single spawning.The hatched larva descends the river to the sea in a few days. The life-history of this small goby in the sea has not been known up to the present time, but Yabe(1940)made an account of its behavior before and after the breeding in the estuaries of Korea.According to Kitahara(1904),this goby having an obvious sexual dimorphism lives in the shallow water of the sea,and enters clear streams with gravelly bottom where the fish spawns.But the fish never goes up the stream to a great distance and remains within 5 or 6 km of the mouth of a river.And its eggs are deposited on relatively larger stones burned in sands and pebbles. The histological changes found in some of the organs and tissues accompanying sexual maturation and senility of the salmon and salmon-like fishes have been extensively investigated by Robertson and Wexler(1959, 1960,1962),Robertson et al.(1961),Honma (1959,1960,1968),Honma and Suzuki(1968) and Honma and Tamura(1963,1965,1968). Honma(1966)also described a histologically pronounced changes in the organs of the mature catadromous eels taken from the