Seamounts, new moon and eel spawning: The search for the spawning site of the Japanese eel

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 221-229

  Tsukamoto, Katsumi ^a   Otake, Tsuguo ^b   Mochioka, Noritaka ^c   Lee, Tae Won ^d   Fricke, Hans ^e   Inagaki, Tadashi ^a   Aoyama, Jun ^a   Ishikawa, Satoshi ^a   Kimura, Shingo ^a   Miller, Michael J ^a   Hasumoto, Hiroshi ^a   Oya, Machiko ^a   Suzuki, Yuzuru ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOR   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Catadromous; Cycle; Lunar; Migration; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

EEL; LUNAR CYCLE; PERIODICITY; SEAMOUNT; SPAWNING; SPAWNING GROUND;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANGUILLA JAPONICA; ANGUILLIFORMES; JAPONICA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037670059     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023926705906     Document Type: Article

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