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Title: 
Liver Glycogen as a Sensitive Indicator of Food Limitation in Delta Smelt
Authors: 
Dhayalan, Tena S.
Tran, Franklin D.
Hung, Tien-Chieh
Issue Date: 
2023
Publisher: 
Springer
Abstract: 
Assessing habitat quality is a major goal of conservationists and restoration practitioners, but to associate habitat quality with biomarkers of vagile animals, the biomarkers must respond rapidly. Here, we identified a biomarker capable of rapidly detecting food limitation in the imperiled Delta Smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus), a pelagic fish endemic to the San Francisco Estuary (SFE). We conducted an experiment with fed and unfed treatments of hatchery-raised, sub-adult Delta Smelt that were sampled at 12 time points: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 14, and 21 days. We then compared four biomarkers using Day 21 fish: RNA/DNA in liver, triglycerides in liver, glycogen in liver, and glycogen in muscle. Of the liver endpoints, glycogen had the largest difference between treatments at Day 21, so we compared it to muscle glycogen across all time points.
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URI: 
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12237-023-01282-y
https://dlib.phenikaa-uni.edu.vn/handle/PNK/9397
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