Cold tolerance and homeoviscous adaptation in freshwater alewives (Alosa pseudoharengus)

Fish Physiology and Biochemistry

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 117-126

  Snyder, Randal J ^a   Hennessey, Todd M ^b  

^a BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Diet; Fatty acids; Freshwater fish; Lipid composition; Lipids; Mortality; survival; Thermal tolerance

Indexed keywords

ARACHIDONIC ACID; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; LINOLEOYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; MEMBRANE LIPID; MONOUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ARTEMIA; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; COLD TOLERANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAPHNIA; DEATH; DIET; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FAT INTAKE; FATTY ACID ANALYSIS; FATTY ACID DESATURATION; FISH; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID STORAGE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; SURVIVAL; WINTER;

ALOSA; ALOSA PSEUDOHARENGUS; ARTEMIA; DAPHNIA; PISCES;

EID: 8744314822     PISSN: 09201742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:FISH.0000035920.60817.11     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Adams, S.M. 1999. Ecological role of lipids in the health and success of fish populations. In: Lipids in Freshwater Ecosystems. pp. 132-160. Edited by M.T. Arts and B.C. Wainman. Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., New York.
2. Adams, S.M., Breck, J.E., and McLean, R.B. 1985. Cumulative stress-induced mortality of gizzard shad in a southeastern U.S. reservoir. Environ. Biol. Fishes 13: 103-112.
3. Belkovskiy, N.M., Lega, Y.V. and Chernitskiy, A.G. 1992. Disruption of water-salt metabolism in rainbow trout, Salmo gairdneri, in seawater at low temperatures. J. Ichthyology 31: 134-141.
4. Bergstedt, R.A., and O'Gorman, R. 1989. Distribution of alewives in southeastern Lake Ontario in autumn and winter: A clue to winter mortalities. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 118: 687-692.
5. Bligh, E.G. and Dyer, W.J. 1959. A rapid method of total lipid extraction and purification. Can. J. Biochem. Physiol. 37: 911-917.
6. Brandt, S.B. 1986. Food of adult trout and salmon in Lake Ontario. J. Great Lakes Res. 12: 200-205.
7. Colby, P.J. 1973. Response of the alewives, Alosa pseudoharengus, to environmental change. In: Responses of Fish to Environmental Changes. pp. 163-198. Edited by W. Chavin. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, IL.
8. Cossins, A.R. and Sinensky, M. 1986. Adaptation of membranes to temperature, pressure, and exogenous lipids. In: Physiology of Membrane Fluidity. pp. 1-20. Edited by M. Shinitzky. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
9. Craig, S.R., Neill, W.H. and Gatlin III, D.M. 1995. Effects of dietary lipid and environmental salinity on growth, body composition, and cold tolerance of juvenile red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus). Fish Physiol. Biochem. 14: 49-61.
10. Dey, I., Buda, C., Wiik, T., Halver, J.E., and Farkas, T. 1993. Molecular and structural composition of phospholipid membranes in livers of marine and freshwater fish in relation to temperature. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90: 7498-7502.
11. Farkas, T. and Csengeri, I. 1976. Biosynthesis of fatty acids by the carp, Cyprinus carpio L., in relation to environmental temperature. Lipids 11: 401-407.
12. Flath, L.E., and Diana, J.S. 1985. Seasonal energy dynamics of the alewife in southeastern Lake Michigan. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 114: 328-337.
13. Fodor, E., Jones, R.H., Buda, C., Kitajka, K., Dey, I. and Farkas, T. 1995. Molecular architecture and biophysical properties of phospholipids during thermal adaptation in fish: An experimental and model study. Lipids 30: 1119-1126.
14. Greene, D.H.S. and Selivonchick, D.P. 1987. Lipid metabolism in fish. Prog. Lipid Res. 26: 53-85.
15. Harpaz, S., Becker, K., and Blum, R. 1999. The effect of dietary 1-carnitine supplementation on cold tolerance and growth of the ornamental cichlid fish Pelvicachromis pulcher - preliminary results. J. Therm. Biol. 24: 57-62.
16. Hazel, J.R. 1993. Thermal biology. In: The Physiology of Fishes. pp. 427-467. Edited by D.H. Evans. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
17. Hazel, J.R. and Landrey, S.R. 1988. Timecourse of thermal acclimation in plasma membranes of trout kidney. II. Molecular species composition. Am. J. Physiol. 255: 628-634.
18. Hazel, J.R. and Prosser, C.L. 1974. Molecular mechanisms of temperature compensation in poikilotherms. Physiol. Rev. 54: 620-627.
19. Hazel, J.R. and Williams, E.E. 1990. The role of alterations in membrane lipid composition in enabling physiological adaptation of organisms to their physical environment. Prog. Lipid Res. 29: 167-227.
20. Henderson, R.J. and Tocher, D.R. 1987. The composition and biochemistry of freshwater fish. Prog. Lipid Res. 26: 281-347.
21. Hennessey, T.M. and Nelson, D.L. 1983. Biochemical studies of the excitable membrane of Paramecium tetraurelia - VIII. Temperature-induced changes in lipid composition and in thermal avoidance behavior. Biochem. Biophys. Acta 728: 145-158.
22. Higgs, D.A., Macdonald, J.S., Levings, C.D. and Dosanjh, B.S. 1995. Nutrition and feeding habits in relation to life history stage. In: Physiological Ecology of Pacific Salmon. pp. 159-315. Edited by C. Groot, L. Margolis and W.C. Clarke. UBC Press, Vancouver, BC.
23. Hochachka, P.W. 1988. Channels and pump-determinants of metabolic cold adaptation strategies. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 90B: 515-519.
24. Ingemansson, T., Olsson, N.U. and Kaufmann, P. 1993. Lipid composition of light and dark muscle of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) after thermal acclimation. Aquaculture 113: 153-165.
25. Johnson, T.B. and Evans, D.O. 1996. Temperature constraints on overwinter survival of age-0 white perch. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 125: 466-471.
26. Kelly, A.M. and Kohler, C.C. 1999. Cold tolerance and fatty acid composition of striped bass, white bass, and their hybrids. N. Amer. J. Aqua. 61: 278-285.
27. McKenzie, D.J. 2001. Effects of dietary fatty acids on the respiratory and cardiovascular physiology of fish. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 128A: 607-621.
28. Morris, R. and Bull, J.M. 1968. Studies on freshwater osmoregulation in the ammocoete of Lampetra planeri (Block). II. The effect of deionized water and temperature on sodium balance. J. Exp. Biol. 48: 597-609.
29. Morris, R.W. and Schneider, M.J. 1969. Brain fatty acids of an antarctic fish, Trematomus bernachii. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 28: 1461-1465.
30. Murray, E.K. 2000. Role of diet in low temperature tolerance and fatty acid composition of the alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus. M.A. Thesis. SUNY College at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York.
31. Neves, R.J. 1981. Offshore distribution of alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus and blueback herring, A. aestivalis, along the Atlantic coast. Fish. Bull. 79: 473-485.
32. Olsen, Y. 1999. Lipids and essential fatty acids in aquatic food webs: what can freshwater ecologists learn from mariculture? In: Lipids in Freshwater Ecosystems. pp. 161-202. Edited by M.T. Arts and B.C. Wainman. Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., New York, NY.
33. Patton, J.S. 1975. The effect of pressure and temperature on phospholipid and triglyceride fatty acids of fish white muscle: A comparison of deepwater and surface marine species. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 52B: 105-110.
34. Schunke, M. and Wodtke, E. 1983. Cold-induced increase of delta-nine and delta-six desaturase activities in endoplasmic membranes of carp liver. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 734: 70-75.
35. Schwarzbaum, P.J., Wieser, W. and Niederstatter, H. 1991. Contrasting effects of temperature acclimation on mechanisms of ionic regulation in a eurythermic and a stenothermic species of freshwater fish (Rutilus rutilus and Salvelinus alpinus). Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 98A: 483-489.
36. Scott, W.B. and Crossman, E.J. 1973. Freshwater Fishes of Canada. Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Ottawa, CN.
37. Sinensky, M. 1974. Homeoviscous adaptation - a homeostatic process that regulates viscosity of membrane lipids in Escherichia coli. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 71: 522-525.
38. Somero, G.N. 1991. Hydrostatic pressure and adaptations to the deep sea. In: Environmental and Metabolic Animal Physiology. pp. 167-204. Edited by C.L. Prosser. Wiley-Liss, New York, NY.
39. Stanley, J.G. and Colby, P.J. 1971. Effects of temperature on electrolyte balance and osmoregulation in the alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) in fresh and sea water. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 100: 624-638.
40. Stone, H.H. and Jessop, B.M. 1994. Feeding habits of anadromous alewives, Alosa pseudoharengus, off the Atlantic Coast of Nova Scotia. Fish. Bull. 92: 157-170.
41. Storelli, R., Acierno, R. and Maffia, M. 1998. Membrane lipid and protein adaptations in Antarctic fish. In: Cold Ocean Physiology. pp. 166-189. Edited by H.O. Portner and R.C. Playle. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
42. Viola, S., Mokady, S., Behar, D. and Cogan, U. 1988. Effects of polyunsaturated fatty acids in feeds of tilapia and carp. 1. Body composition and fatty acid profiles at different environmental temperatures. Aquaculture 75: 127-137.
43. Wallaert, C. and Babin, P.J. 1994. Thermal adaptation affects the fatty acid composition of plasma phospholipids in trout. Lipids 29: 373-376.