Publications by authors named "Sachin Kothiyal"
Schizothorax plagiostomus, commonly known as snow trout, is a popular food fish found in parts of Central Asia and the Indo-Himalayan region. Despite such a broad range of distribution and potential financial value, it is a highly neglected cold-water ichthyofauna. Furthermore, an alarming decline in Schizothoracine population has been reported in the recent past due to climate change and uncontrolled anthropogenic interference.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The classification of the sub-family Schizothoracinae has been debatable due to the overlap in morphological characters. There are discrepancies between classical taxonomy and molecular taxonomy, as well. In the present study, mitochondrial genes CO-I and Cyt b were sequenced to elucidate the phylogenetic status of three species of the genus Schizothorax.
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- * Retinoic acid (RA), derived from vitamin A, is crucial for organ development and triggers meiosis in germ cells, but fetal testes have an RA-degrading enzyme that prevents this process, leading to a developmental arrest.
- * After birth, spermatogonia undergo maturation influenced by RA, with two key pulses: the first promotes differentiation in undifferentiated spermatogonia, while the second drives the meiotic phase in differentiated ones.