PUBLICATION
Tetraspanin Cd9b plays a role in fertility in zebrafish
- Authors
- Greaves, S., Marsay, K.S., Monk, P.N., Roehl, H., Partridge, L.J.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-221115-10
- Date
- 2022
- Source
- PLoS One 17: e0277274 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Roehl, Henry
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Female
- Fertility/genetics
- Male
- Mammals
- Mice
- Semen
- Sperm-Ovum Interactions*
- Spermatozoa/metabolism
- Tetraspanin 29/genetics
- Tetraspanin 29/metabolism
- Tetraspanins/metabolism
- Zebrafish*/genetics
- PubMed
- 36355782 Full text @ PLoS One
Citation
Greaves, S., Marsay, K.S., Monk, P.N., Roehl, H., Partridge, L.J. (2022) Tetraspanin Cd9b plays a role in fertility in zebrafish. PLoS One. 17:e0277274.
Abstract
In mice, CD9 expression on the egg is required for efficient sperm-egg fusion and no effects on ovulation or male fertility are observed in CD9 null animals. Here we show that cd9b knockout zebrafish also appear to have fertility defects. In contrast to mice, fewer eggs were laid by cd9b knockout zebrafish pairs and, of the eggs laid, a lower percentage were fertilised. These effects could not be linked to primordial germ cell numbers or migration as these were not altered in the cd9b mutants. The decrease in egg numbers could be rescued by exchanging either cd9b knockout partner, male or female, for a wildtype partner. However, the fertilisation defect was only rescued by crossing a cd9b knockout female with a wildtype male. To exclude effects of mating behaviour we analysed clutch size and fertilisation using in vitro fertilisation techniques. Number of eggs and fertilisation rates were significantly reduced in the cd9b mutants suggesting the fertility defects are not solely due to courtship behaviours. Our results indicate that CD9 plays a more complex role in fish fertility than in mammals, with effects in both males and females.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping