Of bony fish

Kimura, S. (1983). Vertebrate skin type I collagen Comparison of bony fishes with lamprey and calf. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 74, 525-528. 

Meyen, V.A. (1939). On die annual cycle of changes in the ovaries of bony fishes (In Russian). IzyestiyaAkademii NaukSSSR 1939 (3), 229-418. 

Morris, R.W. (1967). High respiratory quotients of two species of bony fish. Physiological Zoology 40,409-423. 

Otoliths ( earstones ) are small calcified stractmes found in the head of bony fishes. They are an important tool for understanding the life of fish populations. The growth lines and isotopic ratios of otoliths are used to know the migrations of marine fishes, because they are sensitive to salinity and temperatme. Then, the obtained results are helpful to control these parameters in cultivated fishes. In mollusk shells, diseases are usually early diagnosed thanks to shell abnormalities and malformations. These data are then used for fossils and paleoenvironmental reconstractions. 

Fig. 5.2 The special features of bony fish include bony scales (a), opercula (b), highly maneuverable fins (c), a tail with its upper and lower lobes usually of equal size (d), a swim bladder that adjusts the fish s buoyancy (e), nostrils (jj, pectoral fins (g), a pelvic fin (h), an anal fin (i), lateral lines (j), dorsal fins (k), and a stomach (l).

Hansen A, Zielinski BS (2005) Diversity in the olfactory epithelium of bony fishes development, lamellar arrangement, sensory neuron cell types and transduction components. J Neurocytol 34 183-208... 

Hansen A, Rolen SH, Anderson K, Morita Y, Caprio J, Finger TE (2003) Correlation between olfactory receptor cell type and function in the channel catfish. J Neurosci 23 347-359 Hansen A, Anderson KT, Finger TE (2004) Differential distribution of olfactory receptor neurons in goldfish structural and molecular correlates. J Comp Neurol 477 347-359 Hansen A, Zielinski BS (2005) Diversity in the olfactory epithelium of bony fishes development, lamellar arrangement, sensory neuron cell types and transduction components. J Neurocytol 34 183-208... 

Bols, N.C. and L.E.J. Lee. Technology and uses of cell cultures from the tissues and organs of bony fish. 

From a far distant and evidently richer part of the world, Wheeler (1953) surveyed the commercially important bottom fishes of a number of banks in the Mauritius-Seychelles area. He demonstrated that measures of abundance of these fishery stocks depend on the kind of gear fished. Thus fishing with a series of drifting lines arranged in a row 40 feet wide yielded catches ranging from 2.1 to 48.4 tons of bony fish per square mile plus 5 to 84.3 tons of sharks. Fishing with nets on an offshore bank (the Soudan Bank) indicated that the annual yield would become stabilized at around 83 tons per square mile after a year of intense fishing. 

Antifreeze polypeptides are found in the blood plasma of bony fishes from the polar and subpolar oceans. The major antifreeze polypeptide (AFP) from winter flounder (37 amino acid residues) is a single alpha-helix [18]. 

SAPERAS N, LLORis D and CHiVA M (1993) Sporadic appearance of histonesn histone-hke proteins, and protamines in sperm chromatin of bony fish. J Exp Zool, 265, 575-586. 

Fish are not only the most primitive vertebrates extant but also the most numerous. The vast majority of present-day fish are teleosts, the highest order of bony fish. Relatively few examples of more primitive bony fishes are still in existence these include the sturgeon and paddlefish (Chondrostei), the bowfin and gar (Holostei), and the coelacanth (Crossopterygii). 

Three major orders of this subclass (ray-finned bony fish) are in existence the Chondrostei (paddlefish, sturgeon) Holostei (gar, bowfin) and the Teleostei, which constitute the most advanced order and comprise the vast majority of present-day fishes the number of nonteleost species of bony fish is very limited. 

Rasmussen, A.-S. and Arnason, U. (1999) Phylogenetic studies of complete mitochondrial DNA molecules place cartilaginous fishes within the tree of bony fishes . Journal of Molecular Evolution, 48, 118-23. 

Zhu M., Yu X. and Janvier, P. (1999) A primitive fossil fish sheds light on the origin of bony fishes . Nature, 397, 607-10. 

The complement system of bony fish and cartilaginous fish appears to be fully equipped with the three C3-activation pathways and the cytolytic... 

T, YANO T (2006), Lectin pathway of bony fish complement identification of two homologs of the mannose-binding lectin associated with MASP2 in the common carp Cyprinus carpio) , J Immunol,m, 5471—9. 

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