RESEARCH ARTICLE
Thermal Stress Effects on Gene Expression and Phagocytosis in the Common Carp (Cyprinus Carpio): a Better Understanding of the Summer 2001 st. Lawrence River Fish Kill
Valérie Ouellet1, 2, *, Fabien Pierron3, Marc Mingelbier4, Michel Fournier4, Marlène Fournier4, Patrice Couture1
3 Ministère des ressources naturelles et de la faune du Québec, Service de la Faune Aquatique, 880 chemin Sainte-Foy,
2e étage, Québec, G1S 4X4, Canada
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2013Volume: 6
First Page: 99
Last Page: 106
Publisher Id: TOFISHSJ-6-99
DOI: 10.2174/1874401X01306010099
Article History:
Received Date: 09/09/2013Revision Received Date: 25/10/2013
Acceptance Date: 25/10/2013
Electronic publication date: 12/12/2013
Collection year: 2013
© 2013 Ouellet et al.
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open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
In summer 2001, the St. Lawrence River (Québec, Canada) experienced perhaps the largest massive fish kill of its history, with more than 25 000 carp (Cyprinus carpio) found dead. This experiment therefore investigated the effects of heat stress on the gene transcription level of heat shock protein 70, cytochrome c oxidase and mitochondrial superoxide dismutase expression as well as on phagocytosis of kidney cell suspensions and animal behaviour. Our study suggests that in summer 2001, elevated water temperatures could have contributed to the fish kill through immunosuppression during an already stressful spawning period.
Keywords: Fish kill, Gene expression, Phagocytosis, St. lawrence river, Thermal stress.
