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Provedor de dados: | 83
País: | Brazil
Título: | Regression of dark color in subterranean fishes involves multiple mechanisms: response to hormones and neurotransmitters
Autores: | Grempel,Renato Grotta; Trajano,Eleonora; Visconti,Maria Aparecida.
Data: | 2020-01-01
Ano: | 2020
Palavras-chave: | Adrenaline; Melanin Concentrating Hormone; Melanophores; Physiology of Pigmentation; Troglobitic Fish.
Resumo: | ABSTRACT Organisms with source-populations restricted to the subterranean biotope (troglobites) are excellent models for comparative evolutionary studies, due to their specialization to permanent absence of light. Eye and dark pigment regression are characteristics of most troglobites. In spite of the advance in knowledge on the mechanisms behind eye regression in cave fishes, very little is known about pigmentation changes. Studies were focused on three species of the genus Pimelodella. Exemplars of the troglobitic P. spelaea and P. kronei were compared with the epigean (surface) P. transitoria, putative sister-species of the latter. Melanophore areas and densities are significantly lower in the troglobitic species. Evaluating the in vitro response of these cells to adrenaline, acetylcholine and MCH, we observed a reduced response in both troglobites to adrenaline. The same trend was observed with MCH, but not statistically significant. No response to acetilcholine was detected in all the three. Contrary to expectations, even though eye-regression in P. spelaea was much lower than in P. kronei, pigmentation regression was more advanced. Multiple mechanisms of loss showing a mosaic of traits in troglobitic fishes are discussed here.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252020000200214
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia
Relação: | 10.1590/1982-0224-2019-0120
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Neotropical Ichthyology  v.18 n.2 2020
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess