Vol. 10,No. 3, July 2011
Seasonal changes of blood serum ions in Beluga (Huso huso) Cultured in Brackish Water
Description: 1-Inland Saltwater Fish Research Station, PO BOX: 89715-1123, Bagh, Iran 2- Khorramshahr Marine Science University, Fishery Group, Khorramshahr, Iran. 3- Sturgeon International Research Institute, Rasht, Iran *Corresponding author's email: m_alizadeh47@yahoo.com
Abstract: 
Diadromous sturgeons (group 3), Russian sturgeon (A. gueldenstaedtii), Persian sturgeon (A. persicus), Starred sturgeon (A. stellatus) and Beluga (Huso huso) have the ability to adapt to brackish water (12-18 ppt salinity) as firm osmo-regulators (Krayushkina, 1998). After transferring from freshwater to brackish water, these species support a blood serum osmolarity and ion concentration lower than the water ions and osmolarity in the environmental medium (Amini et al., 2005). The functional levels of osmoregulatory and ion regulatory systems in these species are not identical. The starred sturgeon is more euryhaline than the Russian sturgeon and the Beluga (Krayushkina, 1998).

Sunday 10 May 2015
Author: Alizadeh M.*1; Hedayati A.2; Bahmani. M.3
KeyWord: Osmo-ion regulation, Osmolarity, Beluga, Brackish water
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