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Development of ethologo-physiological differentiation between parrs and smolts of the Atlantic salmon Salmo salar

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Dynamics of the level of monoamines and their metabolites in the brain of juveniles of the Atlantic salmon Salmo salar is investigated in the initial period of differentiation of the progeny into parrs and smolts. The first differences in the level of metabolism of noradrenaline (NA) and 5-HT arise in the optical tectum of the brain before the beginning of smolting. Appearance of the first signs of smolting in juveniles is accompanied by the increase of differences in the level of activity of HA-and 5-HT-ergic systems in the forebrain and hypothalamus. The first differences in the activity of the DAergic system between parrs and smolts were observed in the period of visible differences in fish coloration. In the same period, considerable differences in the level of adrenaline and noradrenaline in the fish blood were recorded. In experiments on a prolonged exposure of fish to a current of different intensity, it was shown that behavior and physiological response of the fish organism are different: in parrs, the stressogenous response is developed, they stop feeding, weight loss takes place, and they cannot withstand the water flow; smolts adapt to the current using heterogeneity of water movements.

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Original Russian Text © I.V. Nechaev, D.S. Pavlov, V.Ya. Nikandrov, 2007, published in Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 2007, Vol. 47, No. 6, pp. 799–818.

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Nechaev, I.V., Pavlov, D.S. & Nikandrov, V.Y. Development of ethologo-physiological differentiation between parrs and smolts of the Atlantic salmon Salmo salar . J. Ichthyol. 47, 755–773 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945207090093

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