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Ramin Manaffar (
Artemia
and Aquatic Animals Research Institute,
Urmia University, Urmia, Iran) and Ali Mohamadyari (Ministry of
Education, Office of Education, West-Azerbaijan Province, Urmia,
Iran): personal communication
Acknowledgment
This study was carried out in the Iranian
Artemia
Re-
search Center (I.A.R.C).
I am grateful to Latif Esmaeili (the
previous headmaster of I.A.R.C) and Siyavash Ganji for ad-
ministrative and laboratory help.
This study was funded by the Artemia and Aquatic Ani-
mals Research Institute of Urmia University, Iran
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Results
Before examination, all cyst samples were purified using
freshwater-saturated brine method. Tables 1 and 2 show the
raw data and summarize the results of cysts quality. The re-
sults are shown in Figure 1.
In Table 2 the percentages of potential hatching (PH),
absolutely hatching (AH), false hatching (FH), hatching
efficiency (HE) and cyst purity of the
A. franciscana
were
higher than those of
A. urmiana
and the parthenogenetic
population. The lowest percentage of cracked cyst were as-
sociated with
A. franciscana
. Results shown in Table 2 indi-
cate the shell percentage in the three samples have weree not
significantly different but the percentage of cracked cysts in
the
A. franciscana
sample was the lowest. This difference can
be attributed to the method of processing the cysts and not
to the purification method.
Conclusion
Although the three cyst samples were purified by the
freshwater-saturated brine method, the results show even
if this method separates a considerable amount of the cyst
waste, it isn’t perfect. It was concluded that because of the
low percentage of hatching potential loss and high hatching
efficiency,
A. franciscana
cysts are of higher quality than the
other two types evaluated. Finally, it seems that the new
concepts can provide another approach to studies to assess
the economics brine shrimp cysts.
Notes
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Protectors of Urmia Lake National Park Society (NGO), Urmia,
Iran Email:
Fig. 1. C
yst quality.
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