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Issue Aquat. Living Resour.
Volume 11, Number 2, March 1998
Page(s) 101 - 110
DOI 10.1016/S0990-7440(98)80066-1

Aquat. Living Resour. 11 (1998) 101-110
DOI: 10.1016/S0990-7440(98)80066-1

Reproductive cycle and plasma levels of sex steroids in female Eurasian perch Perca fluviatilis

Isdy Sulistyo1, Jacques Rinchard2, Pascal Fontaine1, Jean-Noël Gardeur3, Bruno Capdeville4 and Patrick Kestemont2

1  Laboratoire de biologie appliquée, université Henri-Poincaré-Nancy 1, 34 rue Sainte-Catherine 54000 Nancy France
2  Unité de recherches en biologie des organismes, facultés universitaires Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix, 61, rue de Bruxelles B-5000 Namur,
    e-mail: patrick.kestemont@cc.fundp.ac.be Belgium
3  Laboratoire des sciences animales, Ensaia-INPL, 2 avenue de la Forêt-de-Haye 54500 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy France
    e-mail: gardeur@mais.ensaia.u-nancy.fr.
4  Centre piscicole départemental du domaine de Lindre 57260 Lindre-basse France

(Received 13 June 1997; accepted 23 March 1998. Available online 11 November 1999.)

Abstract
From April 1995 to April 1996, the annual reproductive cycle of the Eurasian perch Perca fluviatilis was studied at the Fishfarming Lindre Center (Moselle, France). At monthly intervals (at intervals of 10 days during the periovulatory period), 5 females were caught and dissected. From sampled organs, the gonado-, hepato- and viscerosomatic indexes (GSI, HSI, VSI) were calculated, oocyte diameters (OD) and the plasma levels of testosterone (T), 17β-estradiol (E2), 17,20β-dihydroxy-4-pregnen-3-one (17,20β-P) and protein-phosphorus (PPP) were measured. After the sexual resting period observed from May to August (GSI < 1 %, OD < 200 μ;m, VSI = 4-6 %), oogenesis began in September when the water temperature decreased from 26.4 to 14.1 °C. The GSI increased progressively until mid March (15 %), then rapidly until spawning (25 %, OD = 850 μ;m) which occurred in April (14-15 °C). The plasma levels of T, E2, 17,20β-P and PPP were low during the sexual resting period. E2 and PPP levels increased significantly at the onset of the oogenesis in September, then the E2 level raised abruptly in November (3-4 ng · mL-1). In December, the T level increased rapidly to 15-20 ng · mL-1. The testosterone, E2 and PPP levels remained very high until spawning, indicating the existence of active vitellogenesis. The highest HSI (2.1-2.2 %) recorded in winter confirmed this. During the periovulatory period, a peak of E2 (4 ng · mL-1) appeared, whereas T level diminished. In this study, 17,20β-P levels remained low (0.2-0.6 ng · mL-1) and relatively constant. No 17,20β-P peak was observed during the periovulatory period. Sampling at 10 day intervals was probably inadequate to specify the hormonal variations related to the final oocyte maturation and the ovulation.


Key words: Eurasian perch / reproductive cycle / oogenesis / sexual steroids


© Elsevier, IRD, Inra, Ifremer, Cemagref, CNRS 1998


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