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标题：On gonadic maturation and reproductive strategy in deep-sea benthic octopus Graneledone macrotyla
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作者：Ángel Guerra ; María Pilar Sieiro ; Álvaro Roura 等
期刊名称：Helgoland Marine Research
印刷版ISSN：1438-3888
出版年度：2013
卷号：67
期号：3
页码：545-554
DOI：10.1007/s10152-012-0342-z
出版社：BioMed Central
摘要：The new information reported in this paper is based on five maturing and mature females of the large-tuberculate octopus Graneledone macrotyla. These specimens were caught in bottom trawl surveys ATLANTIS 2009 (February 24 to April 1, 2009) and ATLANTIS 2010 (March 9 to April 5, 2010) carried out off the Argentinean Economic Exclusive Zone. Capture depth ranged from 475 to 921 m and sea bottom temperature between 2.8 and 3.1 °C. Development of the complex ovary, oviducts, and oviducal glands during gonadic maturation is described. The absence of spermathecae in the oviducal glands and the presence of fertilized eggs inside the ovary suggested that fertilization took place within the ovary. Histological techniques showed the presence of four types of oocytes. Maturing oocyte size–frequency distribution was polymodal. Fluorescence reaction showed that atresia occurred in both early and later oocyte maturation stages. Atresia affected 48–55 % of the initial number of oocytes. The maximum observed potential fecundity was estimated at 250–300 eggs. G. macrotyla showed a group-synchronous ovulation pattern, regulative atresia, and a batching spawning pattern with a few egg batches spawned intermittently over an extended period of spawning.
关键词：Reproduction;Atresia;Deep-sea octopods;Graneledone macrotyla;Patagonian slope;Southeast Atlantic