Journal
BIOLOGY OPEN
Volume 1, Issue 9, Pages 922-928Publisher
COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/bio.20121446
Keywords
Telomeres; Oxidative stress; Glutathione; Gender differences; Predation effects; Egg quality; Fish
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- Kungliga Hvitfeldtska Stiftelsen
- Wahlstroms foundation
- Adlerbertska Stiftelsen
- Johan och Jakob Soderbergs Stiftelse
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We have analyzed health and physiological aging parameters in male and female Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua, captured in Kattegat, Skagerrak and in Oresund. Gender differences were clearly evident in a number of variables. Males had longer liver telomeres and higher catalase activities than females, while females had higher superoxide dismutase activity, liver somatic index and condition factor. Effects of age were found for males where levels of the antioxidant glutathione and telomere length declined with age, indicating physiological aging. Liver somatic index increased and percentage oxidized glutathione decreased with age. Between-site comparisons of males show that percentage oxidized glutathione and catalase were lowest in Kattegat, whereas protein carbonyls and condition factor were higher in Skagerrak. Females, on the other hand, showed no differences between sites or indications of somatic aging or age-related effects in egg quality, indicating that older and larger female cod are healthy and show no changes in eggs with age. In contrast, males showed indications of physiological aging and lower condition than females. The results emphasize the importance of conserving old mature fish, in particular high egg-productive females, when managing fisheries. (C) 2012. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd.
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