General Sample for Morone americana
Morone americana
White perch (Morone americana) are native to lakes, rivers, and estuaries along the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern seaboards of North America. Given their relatively broad niche distribution, white perch are a key indicator species for ecological monitoring. White perch are temperate basses (Genus Morone), a group of fishes that includes species of economic importance to commercial and recreational fisheries (striped bass, M. saxatilis) and aquaculture (hybrid striped bass, M. saxatilis X M. chrysops). Female reproductive dysfunction (i.e. production of inviable eggs, embryos, and larvae) remains a major obstacle to the expansion of finfish aquaculture and influences recruitment in fisheries and subsequent management practices. The underlying cause(s) of poor egg quality and embryonic mortality of fishes remain unknown. The white perch is a research model for oogenesis of fishes and this ovarian transcriptome is an important resource for future investigations of reproduction and egg quality in temperate basses.
collection_date
2008-11-25
geo_loc_name
USA: NC
specific_host
46260
isolation_source
South Creek, Aurora, NC
age
2-4 years
body_site
Ovary
phenotype
Wild type
subspecf_gen_lin
Wild type
authority
Gmelin, 1789
cell_type
Ovary tissue
dev_stage
Mixed vitellogenic
health_state
Healthy
sample_type
Tissue sample
sex
female
tissue_type
Ovary
breed
White perch