Intersubfamilial Hybridization of Two Danio and Six Related Cyprinid Fishes

Production of sterile individuals is the key technique for surrogate propagation in teleosts. Sterile hybrids may be the ideal surrogate host when they do not generate their own germ cells in their gonads. Here, we attempted hybridization experiments between zebrafish (Danio rerio) and six closely related species (Danio albolineatus, Aphycypris chinensis, Hemigrammocypris rasborella, Opsariichthys platypus, Nipponocypris temminckii, N. sieboldii) and one remotely related species (Tanichthys albonubes). Intersubfamilial hybridizations in the family Cyprinidae resulted in the occurrence of inviable abnormal larvae with the two parental genomes, except for the T. albonubes x A. chinensis hybridization, in which normal larvae survived. Allotetraploidy and spontaneous gynogenetic diploidy were infrequently detected in T. albonubes x A. chinensis and D. albolineatus x A. chinensis, respectivel

Anodic and Cathodic Extracellular Electron Transfer by the Filamentous Bacterium Ardenticatena maritima 110S

Ardenticatena maritima strain 110S is a filamentous bacterium isolated from an iron-rich coastal hydrothermal field, and it is a unique isolate capable of dissimilatory iron or nitrate reduction among the members of the bacterial phylum Chloroflexi. Here, we report the ability of A. maritima strain 110S to utilize electrodes as a sole electron acceptor and donor when coupled with the oxidation of organic compounds and nitrate reduction, respectively. In addition, multicellular filaments with hundreds of cells arranged end-to-end increased the extracellular electron transfer (EET) ability to electrodes by organizing filaments into bundled structures, with the aid of microbially reduced iron oxide minerals on the cell surface of strain 110S. Based on these findings, together with the attempt to detect surface-localized cytochromes in the genome sequence and the demonstration of redox-dependent staining and immunostaining of the cell surface, we propose a model of bidirectional electron transport by A. maritima strain 110S, in which surface-localized multiheme cytochromes and surface-associated iron minerals serve as a conduit of bidirectional EET in multicellular filaments