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Health status of post-spawning Octopus maya (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) females from Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

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The present study aimed to evaluate the health status of Octopus maya females on different days after spawning (days 0, 10, 20, 30, and 40). A total of 25 O. maya females were examined in terms of physiological (i.e., weight loss, hepatosomatic and gonadosomatic indexes, and hemocyanin, protein, glucose, cholesterol, and acylglycerides concentrations in plasma) and immunological variables (i.e., total hemocyte count, hemagglutination, and phenoloxidase activity). We hypothesized that O. maya females should maintain their physiological integrity throughout the post-spawning period until the hatching of the offspring. Results showed that the physiological and immunological indicators measured in post-spawning females significantly changed with time. Loss of body weight over time and a decrease in the hepatosomatic and gonadosomatic indexes were observed. Hemolymph components showed variations that reflect the consumption of reserves and coincide with an increased immune process of hemagglutination and phenoloxidase activity in hemocytes. Our results demonstrate that O. maya females are adapted to maintain an adequate state of health to care for their spawn despite the long period of starvation and contribute to the identification of the mechanisms involved in maintaining the integrity of these animals during one of the most critical phases of their life cycle.

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We thanks specially to José Fernando Tercero, Natali Casanova, Viridiana Gómez, Claudia Caamal-Monsreal, Ariadna Sánchez, and our colleagues from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) for their collaboration in many different aspects of this work. We appreciate the financial support from Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) for PhD (Brazil) and PhD Sandwich scholarship (6419/2014-03) (Mexico) to K. Roumbedakis, and CNPq (National Council of Scientific and Technological Development—305869/2014-0) for research grant to M.L. Martins. Thanks are also given to PASPA-UNAM through a scholarship program to C. Pascual for sabbatical stay at the ULPGC de Gran Canaria, Spain. This research was partially financed by the projects CAPES Ciências do Mar 43/2013, and PAPIIT IT201117, IN223416  and IN219116 from the DGAPA-UNAM.

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Roumbedakis, K., Mascaró, M., Martins, M.L. et al. Health status of post-spawning Octopus maya (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) females from Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Hydrobiologia 808, 23–34 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-017-3340-y

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