A case report of conjoined twins in medaka fish

Dingyi Wang; Zhihua Ren; Bin He; Qunfang Zhou; Ligang Hu; Guibin Jiang

doi:10.1002/mrd.23232

A case report of conjoined twins in medaka fish

Mol Reprod Dev. 2019 Sep;86(9):1083-1085. doi: 10.1002/mrd.23232. Epub 2019 Jul 11.

Authors

Dingyi Wang^{1

2}, Zhihua Ren^{1

2}, Bin He^{1

2}, Qunfang Zhou^{1

2}, Ligang Hu^{1

2}, Guibin Jiang^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
² College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

PMID: 31297893
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.23232

Abstract

Conjoined twins have been reported in trout, catfish, guppy, tilapia, and other fishes under natural conditions. However, they are rarely reported in medaka fish. As far as we know, only one case where two fries were connected to the same yolk sac was reported before. Here, we report a case of conjoined twins in medaka fish (Oryzias latipes).

Keywords: conjoined twins; embryo; medaka fish; post fertilization.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Oryzias / embryology*