TY - JOUR
T1 - Ova lipid profiling and egg quality in wild and captive lumpfish, Cyclopterus lumpus (Linnaeus, 1758)
AU - Hansen, Bjørn Henrik
AU - Kjørsvik, Elin
AU - Malzahn, Arne M.
AU - Sarno, Antonio
AU - Kulild, Ole Martin
AU - Farkas, Julia
AU - Nordtug, Trond
AU - Rye, Rebecca
AU - Kvæstad, Bjarne
AU - Lein, Ingrid
AU - Hagemann, Andreas
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was financed by the project “Optimalisert startfôring av rensefisk (STARTRENS)” funded by the Norwegian Seafood Research Fund (FHF, project number 901561 ). The experiments were carried out within the framework of the national research infrastructure ‘ Norwegian Center for Plankton Technology ’ (# 245937/F50 ). Captive fish from Nofima Sunndalsøra was procured in the project “CleanLifeCycle” funded by FHF (project number 901562 ). The protocols and equipment used for fertilizing and incubating lumpfish, and automated morphology analytical methods were developed by SINTEF Ocean within the Norwegian Research Council project PW-Exposed (# 280511 ).
Funding Information:
This research was financed by the project “Optimalisert startfôring av rensefisk (STARTRENS)” funded by the Norwegian Seafood Research Fund (FHF, project number 901561). The experiments were carried out within the framework of the national research infrastructure ‘Norwegian Center for Plankton Technology’ (#245937/F50). Captive fish from Nofima Sunndalsøra was procured in the project “CleanLifeCycle” funded by FHF (project number 901562). The protocols and equipment used for fertilizing and incubating lumpfish, and automated morphology analytical methods were developed by SINTEF Ocean within the Norwegian Research Council project PW-Exposed (#280511).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022
PY - 2022/11/15
Y1 - 2022/11/15
N2 - Lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) serves an important role as cleaner fish for removing salmon lice in salmon aquaculture. For this use, cultivated lumpfish are preferred over wild-caught fish to avoid overexploitation of natural stocks and provide a stable production of good quality eggs and larvae. To support this, high quality eggs containing the necessary building blocks to support high fertilization success, development into a normal embryo and high hatching success is needed. Ova from wild-caught and captive lumpfish females were collected and assessed to identify how wild and domesticated lumpfish differ in terms of ova lipid profiles, egg and larvae quality. Wild-caught lumpfish displayed higher fertilization and hatching success compared to captive lumpfish, whereas other biological variables like egg size, egg/larvae dry weight and respiration, and larval morphometry, were not significantly different between wild and captive lumpfish. Ova lipid profiles (total lipid, lipid classes, fatty acid composition and lipidomics) can separate egg batches based on their geographic origin of wild-caught females and composition of diets used for captive broodstock (lipid and carbohydrate content). Multivariate statistics were applied to identify lipid markers that can be used to predict the quality of lumpfish ova. Lumpfish ova lipidomic profiles covaried with several biological parameters, indicating that the former can be used to predict the latter. Lumpfish eggs were mostly composed of triacylglycerides (TAGs) with some phosphatidylethanolamines (PEs) and phosphatidylcholines (PCs), and their lipid profiles were more sensitive to the different origins, mother weight/size and fertilization success than variables such as eggs size or larvae morphometric measures. PC and PE content of lumpfish eggs were positively correlated to both hatching success and fertilization rates, thus the lipidomic profiles, with some key highlighted lipid species were putative predictors of egg quality.
AB - Lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) serves an important role as cleaner fish for removing salmon lice in salmon aquaculture. For this use, cultivated lumpfish are preferred over wild-caught fish to avoid overexploitation of natural stocks and provide a stable production of good quality eggs and larvae. To support this, high quality eggs containing the necessary building blocks to support high fertilization success, development into a normal embryo and high hatching success is needed. Ova from wild-caught and captive lumpfish females were collected and assessed to identify how wild and domesticated lumpfish differ in terms of ova lipid profiles, egg and larvae quality. Wild-caught lumpfish displayed higher fertilization and hatching success compared to captive lumpfish, whereas other biological variables like egg size, egg/larvae dry weight and respiration, and larval morphometry, were not significantly different between wild and captive lumpfish. Ova lipid profiles (total lipid, lipid classes, fatty acid composition and lipidomics) can separate egg batches based on their geographic origin of wild-caught females and composition of diets used for captive broodstock (lipid and carbohydrate content). Multivariate statistics were applied to identify lipid markers that can be used to predict the quality of lumpfish ova. Lumpfish ova lipidomic profiles covaried with several biological parameters, indicating that the former can be used to predict the latter. Lumpfish eggs were mostly composed of triacylglycerides (TAGs) with some phosphatidylethanolamines (PEs) and phosphatidylcholines (PCs), and their lipid profiles were more sensitive to the different origins, mother weight/size and fertilization success than variables such as eggs size or larvae morphometric measures. PC and PE content of lumpfish eggs were positively correlated to both hatching success and fertilization rates, thus the lipidomic profiles, with some key highlighted lipid species were putative predictors of egg quality.
KW - Aquaculture
KW - Cleaner fish
KW - Development
KW - Lipid
KW - Lipidomics
KW - Lumpsucker
KW - Physiology
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U2 - 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2022.738556
DO - 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2022.738556
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85133197579
SN - 0044-8486
VL - 560
JO - Aquaculture
JF - Aquaculture
M1 - 738556
ER -