Japanese eel Anguilla japonica do not assimilate nutrition during the oceanic spawning migration: Evidence from stable isotope analysis

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 402, Issue , 2010, Pages 233-238

  Chow, Seinen ^a   Kurogi, Hiroaki ^a   Katayama, Satoshi ^a   Ambe, Daisuke ^a   Okazaki, Makoto ^a   Watanabe, Tomowo ^a   Ichikawa, Tadafumi ^a   Kodama, Masashi ^a   Aoyama, Jun ^b   Shinoda, Akira ^b   Watanabe, Shun ^b   Tsukamoto, Katsumi ^b   Miyazaki, Sachie ^b   Kimura, Shingo ^b   Yamada, Yoshiaki ^c   Nomura, Kazuharu ^d   Tanaka, Hideki ^d   Kazeto, Yukinori ^d   Hata, Kazuhiro ^e   Handa, Takeshi ^e   Tawa, Atsushi ^f   Mochioka, Noritaka ^f   more..

^a FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c IRAGO Institute Co Ltd   (Japan)

^d FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL FISHERIES UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

13C; 15N; Anguilla japonica; Spawning migration; Starvation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CARBON ISOTOPE; EEL; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; SPAWNING; SPAWNING POPULATION; STARVATION;

JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANGUILLA JAPONICA; ANGUILLIDAE; PISCES;

EID: 77954138541     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08448     Document Type: Article

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