Qualitative assessment of the diet of European eel larvae in the Sargasso Sea resolved by DNA barcoding

Biology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 819-822

  Riemann, Lasse ^a   Alfredsson, Hanna ^a   Hansen, Michael M ^b   Als, Thomas D ^c   Nielsen, Torkel G ^d   Munk, Peter ^c   Aarestrup, Kim ^c   Maes, Gregory E ^e   Sparholt, Henrik ^f   Petersen, Michael I ^c   Bachler, Mirjam ^g   Castonguay, Martin ^h  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^f International Council for Exploration of the Sea ^*  (Denmark)

^g INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^h MAURICE LAMONTAGNE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anguilla anguilla; Barcoding; Diet; European eel; Sargasso Sea

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DIET; DNA; EEL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LARVA; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MIGRATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION GROWTH; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPAWNING; SURVIVAL; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; SARGASSO SEA;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA;

EID: 78649881916     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0411     Document Type: Article

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