Deep-ocean origin of the freshwater eels

Biology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 363-366

  Inoue, Jun G ^a,e   Miya, Masaki ^b   Miller, Michael J ^a   Sado, Tetsuya ^b   Hanel, Reinhold ^c   Hatooka, Kiyotaka ^d   Aoyama, Jun ^a   Minegishi, Yuki ^a   Nishida, Mutsumi ^a   Tsukamoto, Katsumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c THÜNEN INSTITUTE OF CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE   (Germany)

^d OSAKA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catadromy; Evolutionary origin; Migration; Mitogenome

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; DEEP SEA; EEL; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENOME; LIFE CYCLE; MIGRATION ROUTE; PHYLOGENETICS; SPAWNING;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANGUILLA JAPONICA; ANGUILLIDAE; ANGUILLIFORMES;

EID: 77954114695     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0989     Document Type: Article

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