Oceanic spawning ecology of freshwater eels in the western North Pacific

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Tsukamoto, Katsumi ^a   Chow, Seinen ^b   Otake, Tsuguo ^a   Kurogi, Hiroaki ^b   Mochioka, Noritaka ^c   Miller, Michael J ^a   Aoyama, Jun ^a   Kimura, Shingo ^a   Watanabe, Shun ^a   Yoshinaga, Tatsuki ^d   Shinoda, Akira ^a,e   Kuroki, Mari ^a   Oya, MacHiko ^a   Watanabe, Tomowo ^b   Hata, Kazuhiro ^f   Ijiri, Shigeho ^g   Kazeto, Yukinori ^h   Nomura, Kazuharu ^h   Tanaka, Hideki ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL FISHERIES UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; PRIMER DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; EEL; FEMALE; LIMNOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SPAWNING; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; LARVA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE;

ANGUILLA JAPONICA; ANGUILLA MARMORATA; ANGUILLIDAE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; EELS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVARY; PACIFIC OCEAN; REPRODUCTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 79551576883     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1174     Document Type: Article

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