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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38346402/limited-effects-of-culling-on-the-behavior-of-invasive-lionfish-pterois-miles-in-the-mediterranean
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Elizabeth W Phillips, Davide Bottacini, Anna N M Schoonhoven, Ynze J J Kamstra, Hannah De Waele, Carlos Jimenez, Louis Hadjioannou, Alexander Kotrschal
Invasive species pose serious threats to ecosystems. To reduce ecological and economic consequences of invasions, efforts are made to control invaders and evaluating the effects of such efforts is paramount. Lionfishes (Pterois volitans and Pterois miles) are native to the Indo-Pacific Ocean and pose a major threat to local ecosystems in the invaded Atlantic and Mediterranean. Culling via spearfishing is a widespread measure to limit lionfish population size in invaded ranges. However, like most hunted fishes, lionfish alter their behavior after repeated culling, potentially decreasing the effectiveness of future culls...
February 12, 2024: Journal of Fish Biology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38225957/understanding-the-pain-experience-of-lionfish-envenomation
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Stephanie Mouchbahani-Constance, Manon Choinière, Reza Sharif-Naeini
INTRODUCTION: Stings from the lionfish (Pterois volitans) constitute one of the most painful wounds in the ocean. This species has invaded the Atlantic coast of the United States, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, and Mediterranean Sea. In addition to its ecological impact on local fish populations, stings from the lionfish pose a medical problem because of the debilitating nature of the pain they produce. However, there are no studies examining the human pain experience of lionfish stings. OBJECTIVE: To characterize the various aspects of the pain experience following a lionfish sting...
September 2023: Pain Reports
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37891703/diving-into-dual-functionality-swim-bladder-muscles-in-lionfish-for-buoyancy-and-sonic-capabilities
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Eric Parmentier, Anthony Herrel, Marine Banse, Heidie Hornstra, Frédéric Bertucci, David Lecchini
Although the primary function of the swim bladder is buoyancy, it is also involved in hearing, and it can be associated with sonic muscles for voluntary sound production. The use of the swim bladder and associated muscles in sound production could be an exaptation since this is not its first function. We however lack models showing that the same muscles can be used in both movement and sound production. In this study, we investigate the functions of the muscles associated with the swim bladder in different Pteroinae (lionfish) species...
October 27, 2023: Journal of Anatomy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37596337/genetic-diversity-patterns-of-lionfish-in-the-southwestern-atlantic-ocean-reveal-a-rapidly-expanding-stepping-stone-bioinvasion-process
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Rodrigo Maggioni, Rafael S Rocha, Jhonatas T Viana, Tommaso Giarrizzo, Emanuelle F Rabelo, Carlos E L Ferreira, Claudio L S Sampaio, Pedro H C Pereira, Luiz A Rocha, Tallita C L Tavares, Marcelo O Soares
In 2020, multiple lionfish (Pterois spp.) records along the equatorial Southwestern (SW) Atlantic revealed a new expansion of these potentially damaging invasive populations, which could impact over 3500 km of Brazilian coastline over the next few years, as well as unique ecosystems and marine protected areas in its path. To assess the taxonomic status, invasion route, and correlation with other centres of distribution, we investigated the genetic diversity patterns of lionfish caught in 2022 at the Amazonia, Northeastern Brazil, and Fernando de Noronha and Rocas Atoll ecoregions, using two molecular markers, the mitochondrial COI and the nuclear S7 RP1...
August 18, 2023: Scientific Reports
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37520263/biology-and-ecology-of-the-lionfish-pterois-volitans-pterois-miles-as-invasive-alien-species-a-review
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Laura Del Río, Zenaida María Navarro-Martínez, Dorka Cobián-Rojas, Pedro Pablo Chevalier-Monteagudo, Jorge A Angulo-Valdes, Leandro Rodriguez-Viera
The lionfish is an exotic invasive fish native to the Indo-Pacific, which is established in the western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. Lionfish can affect native fishes and invertebrates through direct predation or competition for food. The present review aims to analyze the most relevant characteristics of the biology and ecology of lionfish as an invasive alien species, with an emphasis on Cuba. We provide a current view of the well-known lionfish as a successful invasive fish, and we put in this context the information regarding lionfish in Cuban waters, enriching the background knowledge, and giving novel and relevant information...
2023: PeerJ
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36708074/cutaneous-ulcerative-lesions-of-unknown-etiology-affecting-lionfish-pterois-spp-in-the-gulf-of-mexico
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Theresa T Cody, Yasunari Kiryu, Micah D Bakenhaster, Kuttichantran Subramaniam, Maki Tabuchi, Mohammad Shamim Ahasan, Holden E Harris, Jan H Landsberg, Thomas B Waltzek, Alexander Q Fogg, Colin Shea, Deborah B Pouder, William F Patterson, Meaghan E Emory, Roy P Yanong
OBJECTIVE: Cutaneous ulcerative skin lesions in a complex of invasive Gulf of Mexico lionfish (Red Lionfish Pterois volitans, Devil Firefish P. miles, and the hybrid Red Lionfish × Devil Firefish) became epizootic beginning in mid-August 2017. Herein, we provide the first pathological descriptions of these lesions and summarize our analyses to elucidate the etiology of the disease. METHODS: We examined ulcerated and normal fish through gross pathology and histopathology, bacterial sampling, and unbiased metagenomic next-generation sequencing...
January 27, 2023: Journal of Aquatic Animal Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36547910/polypharmacological-cell-penetrating-peptides-from-venomous-marine-animals-based-on-immunomodulating-antimicrobial-and-anticancer-properties
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Shiva Hemmati, Haniyeh Rasekhi Kazerooni
Complex pathological diseases, such as cancer, infection, and Alzheimer's, need to be targeted by multipronged curative. Various omics technologies, with a high rate of data generation, demand artificial intelligence to translate these data into druggable targets. In this study, 82 marine venomous animal species were retrieved, and 3505 cryptic cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) were identified in their toxins. A total of 279 safe peptides were further analyzed for antimicrobial, anticancer, and immunomodulatory characteristics...
December 4, 2022: Marine Drugs
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36389413/feeding-ecology-of-invasive-lionfish-in-the-punta-frances-mpa-cuba-insight-into-morphological-features-diet-and-management
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Laura Del Río, Zenaida María Navarro-Martínez, Alexei Ruiz-Abierno, Pedro Pablo Chevalier-Monteagudo, Jorge A Angulo-Valdes, Leandro Rodriguez-Viera
Cuba's shelf has been invaded by lionfish ( Pterois volitans/Pterois miles ), which have become established over the archipelago, including areas of natural importance. The present study aims to evaluate morphometric features of lionfish and to explore the relationship between lionfish size and diet composition in different habitats in the Punta Frances National Park, Cuba. In total 620 lionfish were captured at 29 sites between 2013 and 2016. Lionfish stomachs were removed and their contents were analyzed using frequency and numerical methods...
2022: PeerJ
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35919997/the-persistent-predation-strategy-of%C3%A2-the%C3%A2-red-lionfish-pterois-volitans
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Ashley N Peterson, Matthew J McHenry
The pursuit of prey is vital to the biology of a predator and many aspects of predatory behaviour are well-studied. However, it is unclear how a pursuit can be effective when the prey is faster than a non-cryptic predator. Using kinematic measurements, we considered the strategy of red lionfish ( Pterois volitans ) as they pursued a faster prey fish ( Chromis viridis ) under laboratory conditions. Despite swimming about half as fast as C. viridis , lionfish succeeded in capturing prey in 61% of our experiments...
August 10, 2022: Proceedings. Biological Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35678355/kudoa-hypoepicardialis-and-associated-cardiac-lesions-in-invasive-red-lionfish-pterois-volitans-in-grenada-west-indies
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Ethan T Woodyard, Arielle E Bierman, Jonnel J Edwards, J Christine Finney, Thomas G Rosser, Matt J Griffin, David P Marancik
Invasive red lionfish Pterois volitans (Linnaeus, 1758) represent an ongoing ecological threat within temperate and tropical waters. Relatively little is known regarding the overall health of P. volitans and their potential for spreading pathogens in non-native regions. Lionfish collected from inshore reefs of Grenada, West Indies, in 2019 and 2021 were identified as P. volitans based on cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 barcoding. Gross and microscopic examination of tissues revealed myxozoan plasmodia in the hearts of 24/76 (31...
June 9, 2022: Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34843077/in-silico-protein-protein-interaction-of-pterois-volitans-venom-with-cancer-inducers-of-helicobacter-pylori
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Guru Nivetha Ravi, Irfan Navabshan, Sneha Unnikrishnan, Karthikeyan Ramalingam
Gastric cancer is a pathological condition induced by the bacteria Helicobacter pylori. Targeting the key virulence factors of H. pylori causing gastric cancer is a promising method for treating gastric cancer. Recently, research has been focused on analyzing the adrenergic, cholinergic, and anti-cancer properties of their venom proteins. Testing the anti-cancer activity of the lethal proteins in the venom of P. volitans provides a bioactive compound for cancer treatment. Still, it is also helpful to eliminate the ecological imbalance caused by these fish in the marine environment...
November 29, 2021: Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34564152/marine-transcriptomics-analysis-for-the-identification-of-new-antimicrobial-peptides
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Baptiste Houyvet, Yolande Bouchon-Navaro, Claude Bouchon, Erwan Corre, Céline Zatylny-Gaudin
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) participate in the immune system to avoid infection, are present in all living organisms and can be used as drugs. Fish express numerous AMP families including defensins, cathelicidins, liver-expressed antimicrobial peptides (LEAPs), histone-derived peptides, and piscidins (a fish-specific AMP family). The present study demonstrates for the first time the occurrence of several AMPs in lionfish ( Pterois volitans ). Using the lionfish transcriptome, we identified four transcript sequences encoding cysteine-rich AMPs and two new transcripts encoding piscidin-like peptides...
August 28, 2021: Marine Drugs
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34547024/total-mercury-concentrations-in-invasive-lionfish-pterois-volitans-miles-from-the-atlantic-coast-of-florida
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Eric G Johnson, Angelina Dichiera, Danielle Goldberg, MaryKate Swenarton, James Gelsleichter
Invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans/miles) pose a serious threat to marine ecosystems throughout the western Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea. The development of a fishery for lionfish has been proposed as a strategy for controlling populations; however, there is concern about consumption of this species by humans due to its high trophic position and potential for bioaccumulation of mercury. We analyzed total mercury (THg) in tissues of lionfish from two locations on the east coast of Florida. THg in lionfish increased with size and differed by location and sex...
2021: PloS One
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34437435/experimental-evidence-of-ciguatoxin-accumulation-and-depuration-in-carnivorous-lionfish
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Isabel do Prado Leite, Khalil Sdiri, Angus Taylor, Jérôme Viallon, Hela Ben Gharbia, Luiz Laureno Mafra Júnior, Peter Swarzenski, François Oberhaensli, Hélène Taiana Darius, Mireille Chinain, Marie-Yasmine Dechraoui Bottein
Ciguatera poisoning is a food intoxication associated with the consumption of fish or shellfish contaminated, through trophic transfer, with ciguatoxins (CTXs). In this study, we developed an experimental model to assess the trophic transfer of CTXs from herbivorous parrotfish, Chlorurus microrhinos , to carnivorous lionfish, Pterois volitans . During a 6-week period, juvenile lionfish were fed naturally contaminated parrotfish fillets at a daily dose of 0.11 or 0.035 ng CTX3C equiv. g-1 , as measured by the radioligand-receptor binding assay (r-RBA) or neuroblastoma cell-based assay (CBA-N2a), respectively...
August 11, 2021: Toxins
https://read.qxmd.com/read/33945562/current-status-as-of-end-of-2020-of-marine-alien-species-in-turkey
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Melih Ertan Çinar, Murat Bilecenoğlu, M Baki Yokeş, Bilal Öztürk, Ergün Taşkin, Kerem Bakir, Alper Doğan, Şermin Açik
The 2020's update of marine alien species list from Turkey yielded a total of 539 species belonging to 18 taxonomic groups, 404 of which have become established in the region and 135 species are casual. A total of 185 new alien species have been added to the list since the previous update of 2011. The present compilation includes reports of an ascidian species (Rhodosoma turcicum) new to the marine fauna of Turkey and range extensions of six species. Among the established species, 105 species have invasive characters at least in one zoogeographic region, comprising 19% of all alien species...
2021: PloS One
https://read.qxmd.com/read/33791589/predator-prey-interactions-examined-using-lionfish-spine-puncture-performance
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
K A Galloway, M E Porter
Puncture mechanics can be studied in the context of predator-prey interactions and provide bioinspiration for puncture tools and puncture-resistant materials. Lionfish have a passive puncture system where venomous spines (dorsal, anal, and pelvic), the tool, may embed into a predator's skin, the target material, during an encounter. To examine predator-prey interactions, we quantified the puncture performance of red lionfish, Pterois volitans , spines in buccal skin from two potential predators and porcine skin, a biological model for human skin...
2021: Integrative organismal biology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/33331287/streptococcus-iniae-associated-mass-marine-fish-kill-off-western-australia
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Erina J Young, Jo Bannister, Nicky B Buller, Rebecca J Vaughan-Higgins, Nahiid S Stephens, Scott D Whiting, Lian Yeap, Terrence L Miller, Kristin S Warren
Streptococcus iniae causes high mortality in cultured and wild fish stocks globally. Since the first report in captive Amazon river dolphins Inia geoffrensis in 1976, it has emerged in finfish across all continents except Antarctica. In March 2016, an estimated 17000 fish were observed dead and dying along a remote 70 km stretch of the Kimberley coastline north of Broome, Western Australia. Affected species included finfish (lionfish Pterois volitans, angelfish Pomacanthus sp., stripey snapper Lutjanus carponotatus, sand bass Psammoperca waigiensis, yellowtail grunter Amniataba caudavittata, damselfish Pomacentridae sp...
December 17, 2020: Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
https://read.qxmd.com/read/33301531/early-life-ecology-of-the-invasive-lionfish-pterois-spp-in-the-western-atlantic
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jason Mostowy, Estrella Malca, Leif Rasmuson, Lourdes Vásquez-Yeomans, Trika Gerard, Eloy Sosa Cordero, Laura Carrillo, John T Lamkin
The invasion of the western Atlantic by the Indo-Pacific lionfish (Pterois volitans/miles) is a serious threat to the ecological stability of the region. The early life history of the lionfish remains poorly understood despite the important role that larval supply plays reef fish population dynamics. In this study, we characterized patterns in the horizontal and vertical distributions of larval lionfish collected in the western Caribbean, US Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico from 19 ichthyoplankton surveys conducted from 2009-2016...
2020: PloS One
https://read.qxmd.com/read/32845879/testing-the-efficacy-of-lionfish-traps-in-the-northern-gulf-of-mexico
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Holden E Harris, Alexander Q Fogg, Stephen R Gittings, Robert N M Ahrens, Micheal S Allen, William F Patterson Iii
Spearfishing is currently the primary approach for removing invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans/miles) to mitigate their impacts on western Atlantic marine ecosystems, but a substantial portion of lionfish spawning biomass is beyond the depth limits of SCUBA divers. Innovative technologies may offer a means to target deepwater populations and allow for the development of a lionfish trap fishery, but the removal efficiency and potential environmental impacts of lionfish traps have not been evaluated. We tested a collapsible, non-containment trap (the 'Gittings trap') near artificial reefs in the northern Gulf of Mexico...
2020: PloS One
https://read.qxmd.com/read/32729212/dermal-modifications-of-the-red-lionfish-pterois-volitans
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Katherine A Galloway, Delaney J Frazier, Marianne E Porter
Vertebrates have evolved flexible and hard dermal armor, but there is often a tradeoff between mobility and protection. Skeletal modifications include fish scales, the shells of tortoises and turtles, and the cranial projections that are found in marine iguanas and lionfish. Sexual dimorphisms of cranial structures are prominent in fishes; we hypothesized that cranial projections of Pterois volitans will change over ontogeny and are sexually dimorphic. The goal of this study is to quantify differences in the cranial armor of P...
July 29, 2020: Journal of Experimental Zoology. Part A, Ecological and Integrative Physiology
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