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So quick backstory this song is about Jeffery Dahmer and his love for his fish keeping. (he talks about them on a number of occasions and in the crime scene photos you can see his tank) The main motive for his killing spree was to have someone to keep forever, he first killed a hitch hiker when he said he wanted to leave so Jeffery hit him over the head with a weight killing him.
In order to obtain basic information about the role played by endogenous sex hormones in bringing about sex changes in the serial-sex changing gobiid fish Trimma okinawae, the gonadal structure of male and female phases were observed histologically. Steroid-producing cells (SPC; Leydig cells in a testis) were observed ultrastructurally in the ovaries and testes of both female-phase and male-phase fish. In addition, gonadal expression of P450 cholesterol side-chain-cleavage (scc) was examined immunohistochemically. Gonads of fish in female and male phases were observed to have both ovaries and testes simultaneously. Female-phase fish had matured with many developed vitellogenic oocytes, while male-phase individuals had immature ovaries with many numbers of previtellogenic oocytes at the perinucleolus stage. Testes of fish in different sexual phases had active spermatogenic germ cells. Organellae of SPC in the ovaries of female-phase fish had active structures of steroid production. In contrast, SPC in the ovaries of male-phase fish did not show active structures of steroid production. Immunopositive reactions against the scc antibody in the ovaries of female-phase fish were very strong, but immunoreactions in the ovaries of male-phase fish were very weak. In the testis, moderate immunopositive signals were obtained from dual-phase male/females.
Vertebrate and invertebrate colour pattern determination mechanisms are considered distinct; recently, however, both fish and butterfly colour patterns have been partly explained by reaction-diffusion mechanisms. Here, we show that multi-coloured eyespots of the spotted mandarin fish, which are reminiscent of butterfly eyespots, are determined by the serial induction of colour patterns. The morphological characterisation of eyespots indicates a sequence of colour pattern development and dynamic interactions between eyespots. A substantial part of an eyespot can be surgically removed and is then reconstructed by regeneration. Strikingly, ectopic patterns are induced by damage at a background (eyespotless) area, but focal damage did not change the eyespot size. Early stages of damage repair were accompanied by calcium oscillations. These results demonstrate that fish eyespots are determined by serial induction, which is likely based on a reaction-diffusion mechanism. These findings suggest mechanistic similarities between the fish and butterfly systems.
However, recent studies have questioned the validity of the gradient model for butterfly eyespots and as an alternative, the induction model was proposed17,18. The induction model has been validated to some extent by experimental results19. The mechanistic explanation of the induction model is based on reaction-diffusion equations for the dynamic signal interactions, similar to those of fish eyespots, although additional mechanisms to specify the initiation sites may be required in butterfly eyespots. However, we have noticed that some fish species have distinct eyespots that are reminiscent of butterfly eyespots. Although mechanisms for determining fish skin colour patterns have been well studied1,2,3,20,21,22,23,24,25,26, the previous studies of fish patterns have focused on stripes or random dots, not including eyespots and there are no experimental results that have directly compared fish eyespots with the butterfly wing colour pattern system.
To examine the convergence between the fish and butterfly systems at the mechanistic level, we investigated the colour patterns of the spotted mandarin fish (Fig. 1a, b), whose eyespots appear to be present at reproducible positions in this species together with those of the spotted ray (Fig. 1c). We named the mandarin fish eyespots as D1 to D7 for the dorsal spots and S1 to S6 for the side (lateral) spots from the anterior to posterior positions, with an R (right) or L (left) suffix (Fig. 1a, b). Here, we studied the fish eyespots with respect to the results obtained from butterfly eyespots and clarified the similarities between them.
We first examined the static morphology of the fish eyespots of the spotted mandarin fish and the spotted ray in comparison with the butterfly eyespots of Junonia butterflies (Fig. 1d). In representative regular (or mature) eyespots, we noticed that there is no white focus in fish eyespots, whereas there is a white focus in butterfly eyespots. In addition, the core of the butterfly eyespots is black. This is largely true for the mandarin fish, but the eyespot core is orange in the spotted ray.
(a) Relationship between whole eyespot size and ring width/core diameter in the D1 eyespots of the spotted mandarin fish (n = 14). (b) Relationship between whole eyespot size and ring width/core diameter in the D2 eyespots of the spotted mandarin fish (n = 14). (c) Relationship between whole eyespot size and ring width/core diameter in a single spotted ray (n = 20). Note that there are four arrays of eyespots parallel to the body outline. Five representative eyespots were taken from each array for measurements. (d) Focal (focus-to-focus) distances and gap (edge-to-edge) distances of dorsal eyespots (n = 11). Measured widths, labelled by uppercase and lowercase alphabets, are shown on the right.
In the case of the spotted ray, both the core orange area (r = 0.97) and the black ring (r = 0.93) display a high correlation with the whole eyespot size in a given individual (n = 20; Fig. 2c). This suggests that the eyespot size in the spotted ray does not reflect dynamic signal interactions. Instead, they were determined previously and all the patterns were enlarged as the skin enlarged. This differs from the spotted mandarin fish.
At the level of the entire animal, the eyespot positions in the mandarin fish are apparently fixed in terms of the number of eyespots and their anatomical positions (n = 15 for quantitative evaluation) (Fig. 2d), whereas in the spotted ray, the number of eyespots and their positions vary from individual to individual (n = 4 by visual inspection, data not shown).
The remainder of this study was performed in the spotted mandarin fish. In most mandarin fish, all the eyespots are positioned symmetrically between the right and left sides of the body. However, in one fish, the D4L and S3L eyespots were fused together, but the D4R and S3R eyespots were not fused (Fig. 3a,b), suggesting homophilic interactions between cells of the same colour. However, eyespots may also repel other eyespots. For example, in a second fish, two ectopic eyespots were found between the D7R and S6R eyespots but not between the D7L and S6L eyespots (Fig. 3c). Notably, the S6R eyespot was much smaller than the S6L eyespot in this fish, probably because of the existence of ectopic eyespots at the position typically occupied by the S6R eyespot.
A pair of dorsal eyespots is symmetrically positioned against the dorsal fin in most mandarin fish and their size and shape are also very similar. However, we occasionally observed irregular pairs of eyespots (Fig. 3d). Two pairs of sister eyespots, a pair of D4R and D4L eyespots and a pair of D5R and D5L eyespots, were different in the size of the black core, but their blue, black and orange rings appeared to be similar in width (Fig. 3e), confirming the previous morphological analysis. Furthermore, the smaller D4R eyespot was likely compensated for by the enlarged D5R eyespot (Fig. 3f). This suggests that one eyespot signal suppresses the other eyespot signal despite a lack of physical contact between these eyespots morphologically.
We have shown by measuring the focus-to-focus distances and edge-to-edge distances between eyespots that, similar to those of butterflies, the locations of the dorsal eyespots are fixed characteristics of mandarin fish. This implies the importance of the initial positional specification in mandarin fish. Note that in many mammalian and fish species, including the spotted ray, skin colour patterns vary even among individuals in a given species. At present, we have found no anatomical structure that may specify eyespot positions in the spotted mandarin fish. This differs from butterflies, in which cuticle spots correspond to eyespot foci27.
Regeneration experiments showed that part of an eyespot may be able to reconstruct the full eyespot even without the black core (Fig. 7, middle). Interestingly, the black core was regenerated after ring closure and then the orange area was observed at the core. These surgical experiments undoubtedly demonstrate that the black core (or a putative organising centre) is not required to regenerate eyespots in this species of fish. The possibility that the pattern determination signals still persist on the naked surface of the detached area is not realistic because when the original eyespots were destroyed, full restoration of the previous eyespot was not realised.
It is interesting to note that when an eyespot ring was opened by damage, the black cells migrated towards the damaged site, as was observed in the zebrafish system23. It is likely that mutual stabilisation between different rings is necessary to maintain the precise eyespot patterns; if a pigment cell is not stabilised in a single position by inhibitory forces from surrounding cells, it is able to move from its original position.
As expected from the results discussed above, focal damage did not affect eyespot size and shape. Initially, this seems to be different from surgical studies of the butterfly forewing eyespots, where focal damage reduced the eyespot size10,13,14,15,16,27. However, the damage-induced size reduction in butterflies has been observed only on the forewing eyespots. The hindwing eyespots are not reduced in size in response to damage and other homologous elements also do not respond to damage17. In butterflies, the forewing damage that leads to reduced eyespot sizes may cause the extensive removal of position-specifying or signal-generating cells; therefore, such experiments do not necessarily support the conventional gradient model for positional information17,18. In the case of the mandarin fish, a circular blue area was observed at the damaged site in the eyespot core. Therefore, there may be cellular interactions that produce circular clusters of blue cells inside the eyespot core but no such interactions outside an eyespot.
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