Artificial Fertilization among Yellowfin and Gulf Menhaden (Brevoortia) and Their Hybrid
- 1 April 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
- Vol. 97 (2) , 119-123
- https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8659(1968)97[119:afayag]2.0.co;2
Abstract
Eggs of yellowfin menhaden, Brevoortia smithi, were artificially fertilized with sperm from yellowfin menhaden, Gulf menhaden (B. patronus), and naturally occurring hybrid menhaden, and reared through the larval yolksac stage at sea under controlled temperature and salinity. Hatching occurred after 38 hours at 21 C. The last larva died 7 days after hatching. Specimens of embryos and larvae were preserved during development and later photographed. Survival of the cross‐fertilized eggs equalled that of the intraspecific fertilizations.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: