Seasonal reproductive biology of two species of freshwater catfish from the Venezuelan floodplains.

Oxydoras sifontesi and Pimelodus blochii are seasonal breeder fish. Spawn occurs once a year over a short interval of time, at the beginning of the rainy season. The gonadosomatic index (GSI), and plasma levels of steroid hormones of P.

Intracytoplasmic sperm injection using cryopreserved, fixed, and freeze-dried sperm in eggs of Nile tilapia.

Gamete preservation techniques are essential in animal husbandry as well as in assisted reproduction for humans. In this research we attempted to use 3 different sperm preservation techniques in combination with newly developed techniques for intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) to fertilize eggs of a teleost fish, the Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). Of 47 eggs injected with fresh sperm, 11 (23%) were fertilized, 5 developed abnormally, and 4 developed normally and hatched; from these, one grew to adulthood.