Cryopreservation of testicular tissue from Murray River Rainbowfish, Melanotaenia fluviatilis.

ABSTRACT: Globally, fish populations are in decline from overfishing, habitat destruction and poor water quality. Recent mass fish deaths in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin highlight the need for improved conservation methods for endangered fish species. Cryopreservation of testicular tissue allows storage of early sperm precursor cells for use in generating new individuals via surrogacy. We describe successful isolation and cryopreservation of spermatogonia in an Australian rainbowfish. Testis histology showed rainbowfish spermatogonia are large (>?10 ?m) and stain positive for Vasa, an early germ line-specific protein. Using size-based flow cytometry, testis cell suspensions were sorted through "A" (>?9 ?m) and "B" gates (2-5 ?m); the A gate produced significantly more Vasa-positive cells (45.0%?±?15.2%) than the "B" gate (0.0%?±?0.0%) and an unsorted control (22.9%?±?9.5%, p??9 ?m) viability (72.6%?±?10.5%) comprised 1.3 M DMSO, 0.1 M trehalose and 1.5% BSA; cell viability was similar to fresh controls (78.8%?±?10.5%) and significantly better than other cryoprotectants (p?

SUBMITTER: Rivers N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7653925 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature