Publications by authors named "Wen-Chun Fu"
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- Catadromous fishes, like Anguilla marmorata, migrate between freshwater and ocean environments, adapting their physiological traits such as visual sensitivity and salinity tolerance during different life stages.
- The study focused on how upstream migration affects the spectral sensitivity and opsin gene expression in A. marmorata, revealing that these eels have a duplex retina with distinct rod and cone photoreceptors and exhibit various spectral sensitivities.
- The research found that the blue-shifted Rh1d opsin in these eels can influence their vision and likely plays a significant role in guiding their migratory behavior.
Optomotor studies have shown that three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) are more sensitive to red during summer than winter, which may be related to the need to detect the red breeding colour of males. This study aimed to determine whether this change of red light sensitivity is specifically related to reproductive physiology. The mRNA levels of opsin genes were examined in the retinae of sexually mature and immature fish, as well as in sham-operated males, castrated control males, or castrated males implanted with androgen 11-ketoandrostenedione (11 KA), maintained under stimulatory (L16:D8) or inhibitory (L8:D16) photoperiods.
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