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Muscle fiber types, growth and development in the whole myotome of cultured Pacific bluefin tuna Thunnus orientalis

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Following the successful development of Pacific bluefin tuna (PBT) aquaculture, it is of considerable importance to determine the muscle fiber types and their growth patterns for future development. Muscle fiber profiles of dorsal ordinary, lateral ordinary (LO) and dark muscles and their growth patterns in PBT from 3.0 to 54.3 kg body weight were studied. Muscle fibers were histochemically stained for NADH-diaphorase and myosin adenosine triphosphatase activity (mATPase), and immunohistochemically stained with S-58 slow-muscle myosin antibody. All muscle fibers in dorsal and LO muscles showed low NADH-diaphorase activity, and acid-labile (pH 4.0 or 4.3) and alkali-stable mATPase activity. In LO muscle adjacent to dark muscle, three intensities of mATPase activity were observed after acid pre-incubation at pH 4.5 or 5.0, and the activity was related to the muscle fiber diameter. In dark muscle, all small and some large fibers stained intensely for NADH-diaphorase activity, related to their high aerobic metabolism. The high-active fibers with NADH-diaphorase in dark muscle were positive for S-58 antibody. Some large fibers in dark muscle showed intermediate NADH-diaphorase activity and high mATPase activity after alkali pre-incubations. These are fast-twitch oxido-glycolytic fibers in dark muscle and transformed to red muscle fibers with increasing body weight.

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This study was supported in part by the International Education and Research Center for Aquaculture Science of Bluefin Tuna and Other Cultured Fish, Kinki University Global COE Program for the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan. The authors are grateful to Nantake Suisan, Osaka, Japan, for the assistance in the collection and supply of muscle samples.

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    Masahiro Nakatani, Tokihiko Okada & Yoshifumi Sawada

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Roy, B.C., Ando, M., Nakatani, M. et al. Muscle fiber types, growth and development in the whole myotome of cultured Pacific bluefin tuna Thunnus orientalis . Fish Sci 78, 471–483 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12562-011-0463-3

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