Date of Award
2016
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.Sc.
Department
Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research
Keywords
PCB; round goby; tolerance; tubenose goby
Supervisor
Drouillard, Ken
Supervisor
Johnson, Tim
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Abstract
This thesis compared physiological tolerance and bioenergetic requirements in a pair of Great Lakes invasive fish from the family Gobiidae: the round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) and the tubenose goby (Proterorhinus semilunaris). Physiological tolerance studies compared the response of the two species to acute thermal stress. The 12 h LC50 (lethal temperature contributing to 50% mortality) for round goby (33.4°C) was significantly higher than the tubenose goby (31.9oC). The LT50 (lethal time contributing to 50% mortality) for round goby was also longer compared to tubenose gobies. Routine metabolic rates of the two goby species were estimated using a depuration tracer modelling approach based on PCB elimination measured in the two species under 21.4oC. There were no significant differences in the rate of PCB elimination or estimates of RMR between round and tubenose goby. This implies that the two species have a similar bioenergetic requirements at their preferred temperature.
Recommended Citation
Sun, Xin, "Comparison of physiological performance characteristics of two Great Lakes invasive fish species: Round Goby (Neogobius melanostomus) and Tubenose Goby (Proterorhinus semilunaris)" (2016). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 5692.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/5692