Robine H J Leeuwis, Jennifer R Hall, Fábio S Zanuzzo, Nicole Smith, Kathy A Clow, Surendra Kumar, Ignacio Vasquez, Frederick W Goetz, Stewart C Johnson, Matthew L Rise, Javier Santander, A Kurt Gamperl
Low-oxygen levels (hypoxia) in aquatic habitats are becoming more common because of global warming and eutrophication. However, the effects on the health/disease status of fishes, the world's largest group of vertebrates, are unclear. Therefore, we assessed how long-term hypoxia affected the immune function of sablefish, an ecologically and economically important North Pacific species, including the response to a formalin-killed Aeromonas salmonicida bacterin. Sablefish were held at normoxia or hypoxia (100% or 40% air saturated seawater, respectively) for 6-16 weeks, while we measured a diverse array of immunological traits...
March 21, 2024: Developmental and Comparative Immunology