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Comparative study on ovarian structures in scorpaenids: possible evolutional process of reproductive mode

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The reproductive modes of the Scorpaenidae are extremely varied: oviparity, viviparity, and even spawning of internally fertilized eggs or embryos (zygoparity or embryoparity), as in Helicolenus, are known. The ovarian structure of this family is divided into two types by the arrangement of the stroma and the ovarian cavity. One type is the ovary in which the lamella-like stroma develops from the ovarian hilus located on the dorsal side and where the ovarian cavity is located on the ventral side of ovary, classified as “cystovarian type II-1” by Takano (1989). In the other type, the stroma in the ovary develops radially around the blood circulatory system that traverses the center of the ovary, and then the ovarian cavity surrounds all the ovary, classified as “cystovarian type II-3” by Takano (1989). In the present analysis, previous reports about ovarian structure and the relationship to the reproductive mode of scorpaenids were described, and the ovarian structure of eight genera of Scorpaenidae was examined. The ovary of cystovarian type II-1 is seen only in viviparous genera and is not seen in oviparous genera. However, the cystovarian type II-1 is a general structure in other families of Scorpaeniformes, and this structure could be considered a primitive type of ovary rather than that acquired by the process of evolution from oviparity to viviparity. The ovary of cystovarian type II-3 is seen in all six oviparous genera and the one zygoparous genus examined. The ovary of this type is not found in any other family of teleosts, so it could be a structure originally divided in Scorpaenidae. In the genera having the cystovarian type II-3 ovary, there is a common feature of spawning: a floating egg mass encompassed by the gelatinous material. We postulate that the evolution of reproductive mode in the scorpaenid fishes is as follows: Sebastes and Sebastiscus have a primitive ovary in which viviparity has developed, whereas the genera that spawn a floating egg mass evolved the ovarian structure from primitive type to cystovarian type II-3, and further zygoparity, such as in Helicolenus, evolved from them.

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Koya, Y., Muñoz, M. Comparative study on ovarian structures in scorpaenids: possible evolutional process of reproductive mode. Ichthyol Res 54, 221–230 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-006-0394-7

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