Mystery of Unicellular and Multicellular Keratinous Tubercles of the Epidermal or Dermal Origin in Fish

Pinky Tripathi
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Pinky Tripathi: Sri Agrasen Kanya PG College, India

International Journal of Cell Science & Molecular Biology, 2018, vol. 4, issue 2, 35-40

Abstract: Multicellular keratinous tubercles in the form of breeding tubercles (BTs) under a perplex variety of other terms have long been known in the Ichthyology write-ups. These tubercles in fish are most often found on the head, rostral cap or snout, around the eyes, operculum, on the rays of the pectoral fins, pelvic fins, and even they are arranged in fine patterns on scales usually be confused with unicellular and multicellular non-BTs as there is no much variation in the appearance of BTs and non-BTs morphology. Variety of non-BTs have different purposes like minute tubercles may even used for observations of larval development in some fish and most commonly the tubercles which are non-breeding help to understand the functional significance in relation to mechanical protection, friction and adhesion.

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Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.19080/IJCSMB.2018.03.555633

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