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Effect of temperature on early development of white and lake sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus and A. fulvescens

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The effect of constant incubation temperatures (between 10°C and 26°C) on the developmental rates was found to fit a similar exponential relationship in both the lake and white sturgeon embryos and larvae. Although the lake sturgeon had an overall slower rate of development than the white sturgeon, no statistically significant difference was detected in the slopes of the exponential equations describing the effect of temperature on developmental rate. The effect of these incubation temperatures on embryonic survival also did not differ between these two species. Both species exhibited optimal survival between 14–17° C and incipient mortalities occurred at 20°C. Temperatures above 20°C were lethal for white sturgeon embryos. No effect of low incubation temperature on survival was evident from this study. A comparison of these North American species with Eurasian acipenserids suggests that all the sturgeon that have been examined exhibit a similar influence of incubation temperature on developmental rate.

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  1. Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, U.S.A.

    Yuan L. Wang

  2. Center for Great Lakes Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, 53201, U.S.A.

    Frederick P. Binkowski

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Wang, Y.L., Binkowski, F.P. & Doroshov, S.I. Effect of temperature on early development of white and lake sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus and A. fulvescens . Environ Biol Fish 14, 43–50 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00001575

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