Milt androgen profile and evaluation of sperm morpho-functional characteristics of wild-caught and farmed European eels (Anguilla anguilla).

ABSTRACT: Evaluating milt samples before their preservation and/or reproductive use is critical to correctly develop assisted reproductive strategies for teleost species. This is especially true in case of "critically endangered" species, like the European eel (Anguilla anguilla), whose life cycle is not closed yet, leading to the necessity of capturing younglings from natural populations for both research and productive purposes. Despite androgens being involved in spermatogenesis and playing pivotal roles in the pre-migratory morphological and physiological changes, their quantification in different biological tissues is still to be refined in European eels. The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of extraction and quantification of testosterone (T) and 11-ketotestosterone (11-KT) fr

SUBMITTER: Gentile L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11976806 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature