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Naturally Occurring Thiamine Deficiency Causing Reproductive Failure in Finger Lakes Atlantic Salmon and Great Lakes Lake Trout Public Deposited

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  • A maternally transmitted, noninfectious disease known as the Cayuga syndrome caused 100% mortality in larval offspring of wild-caught landlocked Atlantic salmon Salmo salar from several of New York's Finger Lakes. Survival of lake trout Salvelinus namaycush from Lakes Erie and Ontario was also impaired, but not until yolk absorption was nearly complete; moreover, mortality was greatly reduced relative to that of the salmon (range: 5–87%). Tissue concentrations of thiamine hydrochloride were severely reduced in these salmonid fish relative to unaffected control stocks. Afflicted Atlantic salmon treated with thiamine by yolk-sac injection or by bath immersion recovered completely from the Cayuga syndrome, as evidenced by the quantified reversal of abnormal swimming behaviors only 2 d after treatment and by the excellent survival (>95%) of the treated Atlantic salmon through 1.5 months of feeding. These data represent the first evidence of a vitamin deficiency causing the complete reproductive failure of an animal population in nature. These lethal vitamin deficiencies are presumably caused by a diet of alewives Alosa pseudoharengus, nonnative forage fishes of the herring family that exhibit high thiaminase activity.
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  • Jeffrey P. Fisher , John D. Fitzsimons , Gerald F. Combs Jr. & Jan M. Spitsbergen (1996) Naturally Occurring Thiamine Deficiency Causing Reproductive Failure in Finger Lakes Atlantic Salmon and Great Lakes Lake Trout, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 125:2, 167-178, DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(1996)125<0167:NOTDCR>2.3.CO;2
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  • This work was supported by a National Institute of Environmental Health Toxicology Training Grant (ES07052-17) to J. P. Fisher. Additional support was provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration award NA46RG0090 to the Research Foundation of the State University of New York for the New York Sea Grant Institute. For help with broodstock collection, we thank
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