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Morphofunctional peculiarities of erythrocytes in wild and farmed Coregonid fishes from Lake Baikal

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Structure and cytometric indices of red blood cells (RBC) and hemoglobin content (Hb) and oxygen capacity of the blood (OCB) of omul, whitefish, and hybrids thereof captured in Lake Baikal (wild) and incubated and grown in a freshwater aquarium complex (FAC) (farmed) have been analyzed. Cytometric parameters of red blood cells of wild omul, whitefish, and hybrids thereof exceed those of the cells of fish reared in aquariums under identical conditions. The effect of aquarium rearing on the shape of red blood cells is the least pronounced in Siberian whitefish and F1 progeny of Siberian whitefish females and omul males (f Sw x m Om). The erythrocyte size in hybrids of female Lacustrine whitefish and male omul (f Lw x m Om) is determined by the size of these cells in female parents, since female Lacustrine whitefish have the largest erythrocytes. Cytometric parameters of erythrocytes of all Coregonid fishes investigated are higher in fish reared in warm aquaria than in conspecifics reared in aquaria with cold water. Erythrocyte nuclei are smaller in artificially propagated hybrids than in parent fish captured in the wild or in whitefish and omul reared in aquaria under the same conditions. A distinct pool of erythrocytes from whitefish captured in the wild have a 20–30% higher content of functionally active mitochondria than erythrocytes of whitefish reared in aquaria; a disrupted mitochondrial structure is also observed in erythrocytes from the latter population of fish. The results show that distinctive features of metabolism related to oxygen transport in the Baikal coregonid fish that were investigated are determined by adaptation to the conditions of the ecological niches occupied by the fish.

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Original Russian Text © V.M. Yakhnenko, I.V. Klimenkov, N.P. Sudakov, A.Yu. Belyshenko, O.Yu. Glyzina, A.M. Mamontov, Yu.P. Sapozhnikova, L.V. Sukhanova, 2016, published in Sibirskii Ekologicheskii Zhurnal, 2016, No. 2, pp. 256–266.

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Yakhnenko, V.M., Klimenkov, I.V., Sudakov, N.P. et al. Morphofunctional peculiarities of erythrocytes in wild and farmed Coregonid fishes from Lake Baikal. Contemp. Probl. Ecol. 9, 219–228 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995425516020116

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