Otolith chemistry of prey fish consumed by a fish predator: does digestion hinder Russian doll techniques?

abstract：:The reproductive cycles of three mullet species from the Eastern Adriatic coast were described using several biological parameters (gonado-somatic index, oocyte diameter and sex ratio) to improve knowledge about their reproduction. ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Bartulović V,Dulčić J,Matić-Skoko S,Glamuzina B

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of feeding habits was performed for early life stages of Brachyplatystoma rousseauxii and Brachyplatystoma filamentosum in the Madeira River, Brazil. Stomach contents of B. rousseauxii and B. filamentosum were identified and analysed to provide the percentage of frequency of occurrence (%FO) and area (%A) and...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Márquez-Velásquez V,Galdino Leite R,Hernandez-Serna A,Alvarado F

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the complementary DNA (cDNA) of Japanese pufferfish Takifugu rubripes tumour necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) was cloned by reverse-transcription PCR. The open reading frame of the TRAIL consisted of 870 bases. The deduced amino-acid sequence of the TRAIL showed a high homology ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Li JF,Ai HX,Zhang J,Du MX,Zhang Z,Zhang JX,Zhang SQ

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first records of sympatric populations of the poorly studied sister species Brachyrhaphis roseni and Brachyrhaphis terrabensis are presented. Sympatric populations were found in a total of 14 localities in four river drainages throughout the Pacific slopes of western Panama, and they occurred in a wide range of el...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Ingley SJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laser photogrammetry was found to be a promising new cost-effective technique for measuring free-swimming whale sharks Rhincodon typus. Photogrammetric measurements were more precise than visual size estimates by experienced researchers, with results from the two methods differing by 9· 8 ± 1· 1% (mean ±s.e.). A new m...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Rohner CA,Richardson AJ,Marshall AD,Weeks SJ,Pierce SJ

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in the diet composition of small (28-42 mm total length, L(T)) and large (43-75 mm L(T)) individuals of the cline Clinitrachus argentatus (Clinidae) were evident. Smaller individuals preyed mainly on copepods, whereas larger individuals ate mainly amphipods, isopods, brachyurans and polychaetes. ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Ozen O,Altin A,Ayyildiz H

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flatfishes are a group of teleosts of high commercial and environmental interest, whose biology is still poorly understood. The recent rapid development of different 'omic' technologies is, however, enhancing the knowledge of the complex genetic control underlying different physiological processes of flatfishes. This ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Cerdà J,Douglas S,Reith M

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic structure and diversity of nine Japanese kokanee (landlocked) Oncorhynchus nerka stocks and anadromous O. nerka from the North Pacific and the Canadian Lake Cultus population were examined using microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA. Sequence analyses of the cytochrome b region of mtDNA for Japanese kokanee O. ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Yamamoto S,Kitamura S,Sakano H,Morita K

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the effects of sexual maturity on space use in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) parr as facultative early maturation enables us to work on individuals belonging to the same cohort. We monitored the space use of 40 1-year-old males in natura throughout a breeding season. First, mature individuals covered longe...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Bouchard C,Lange F,Guéraud F,Rives J,Tentelier C

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The opioid peptides are involved in the regulation of neuroendocrine functions in vertebrates. Nonetheless, the influence of an opioid peptide, dynorphin A (DYN), on reproduction in fish is understudied. The aim of this work was to study the influence of DYN on the pituitary-ovary axis in Oreochromis mossambicus. Dail...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Vijayalaxmi,Ganesh CB

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether time of seaward migration of young Atlantic salmon Salmo salar influences their subsequent survival and growth was investigated in the River Imsa, south-western Norway. Salmo salar were tagged when moving downstream through a trap near the outlet between 1976 and 2010 and recaptured on their adult return. Most...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Jonsson N,Jonsson B

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mekong Delta is host to a large number of freshwater species, including a unique group of facultative air-breathing Anabantiforms. Of these, the striped snakehead (Channa striata), the climbing perch (Anabas testudineus), the giant gourami (Osphronemus goramy) and the snakeskin gourami (Trichogaster pectoralis) ar...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Goodrich HR,Bayley M,Birgersson L,Davison WG,Johannsson OE,Kim AB,Le My P,Tinh TH,Thanh PN,Thanh HDT,Wood CM

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stable isotope and gut content analyses, in conjunction with backcalculated length-at-age estimates of growth, were employed to examine the relationship between trophic ecology and growth rate of a successful invader, Rutilus rutilus, in eight lakes in Ireland. The data revealed that R. rutilus was a trophic generalis...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Hayden B,Massa-Gallucci A,Harrod C,O'grady M,Caffrey J,Kelly-Quinn M

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of archival depth telemetry as a means of remotely assessing the reproductive rates of free-ranging fishes is explored. This is achieved by electronically tracking the vertical movements of individual female small spotted catsharks Scyliorhinus canicula in the natural environment, whilst simultaneously evaluat...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Wearmouth VJ,Southall EJ,Morritt D,Sims DW

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the spatial and environmental variation in demographic processes of fisheries target species, such as coral grouper (Genus: Plectropomus), is important for establishing effective management and conservation strategies. Herein we compare the demography of Plectropomus leopardus and P. laevis between Austr...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Payet SD,Lowe JR,Mapstone BD,Pratchett MS,Sinclair-Taylor TH,Taylor BM,Waldie PA,Harrison HB

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Landmark-based geometric morphometrics were used to evaluate the effect of flow and depth in the water column on the body size and shape of Brycon henni from river and stream populations. The dendrogram showed that stream populations clustered apart and showed significantly smaller centroid size and narrower bodies th...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Restrepo-Escobar N,Hurtado-Alarcón JC,Mancera-Rodríguez NJ,Márquez EJ

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reproductive biology of the spangled emperor Lethrinus nebulosus in the southern Arabian Gulf was determined from the examination of 781 individuals collected between September 2008 and August 2009. There was no histological evidence of adult sex change, and sex ratios did not differ significantly from unity acros...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Grandcourt EM,Al Abdessalaam TZ,Francis F,Al Shamsi AT

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we present records of sharks obtained using baited remote underwater stereo-video systems (stereo-BRUVS) at two Brazilian oceanic islands. Fourteen of the 60 deployments recorded 19 sharks in Trindade Island. In Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago (SPSPA), two pelagic and two demersal deployments recorded two ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Pimentel CR,Andrades R,Ferreira CEL,Gadig OBF,Harvey ES,Joyeux JC,Giarrizzo T

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic rate is a critical factor in animal biology and ecology, providing an objective measure that can be used in attributing a cost to different activities and to assessing what animals do against some optimal behaviour. Ideally, metabolic rate would be estimated directly by measuring heat output but, until recen...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Metcalfe JD,Wright S,Tudorache C,Wilson RP

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To obtain transcriptomic insights into branchial responses to salinity challenge in Anabas testudineus, this study employed RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) to analyse the gill transcriptome of A. testudineus exposed to seawater (SW) for 6 days compared with the freshwater (FW) control group. A combined FW and SW gill transcr...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Chen XL,Lui EY,Ip YK,Lam SH

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first record of pughead deformity in a Neotropical freshwater fish not raised in captivity is provided, based on an adult male of Cichla kelberi introduced into an estuary of Rio de Janeiro State, south-eastern Brazil. A general biological characterization of the specimen is provided and aspects of its aberrant an...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Catelani PA,Bauer AB,Di Dario F,Pelicice FM,Petry AC

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The length and mass ratio, diet and isotopic composition of Aplochiton zebra and Aplochiton taeniatus inhabiting a Salmo trutta-invaded and a S. trutta-free lake in southern Patagonia were compared. Results indicate that S. trutta exercises important trophic interference over A. zebra and A. taeniatus, causing changes...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Elgueta A,González J,Ruzzante DE,Walde SJ,Habit E

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Petroleuciscus ninae sp. nov. is described from the Büyük Menderes River drainage. The new species is distinguished by having a black lateral stripe from head to base of caudal fin, stripe distinct anteriorly and posteriorly, wider than eye diameter; numerous black pigments on anal-fin rays; body depth at dorsal-fin o...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Turan D,Kalayci G,Kaya C,Bektaş Y,Küçük F

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neoheterobothrium hirame a haematophagous monogenean parasite on Japanese flounder Paralichthys olivaceus occurred at high prevalences (> 70%) from 1999 to 2002 but thereafter declined and remained low (< 20%) from 2003 to 2005 in the Joban area, Japan. In 2006, N. hirame became abundant again reaching a prevalence of...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Tomiyama T,Watanabe M,Kurita Y

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many experiments, euthanasia, or humane killing, of animals is necessary. Some methods of euthanasia cause death through cessation of respiratory or cardiovascular systems, causing oxygen levels of blood and tissues to drop. For experiments where the goal is to measure the effects of environmental low oxygen (hypox...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Larter KF,Rees BB

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight farmed Atlantic bluefin tuna Thunnus thynnus were tagged with temperature and depth transmitters inserted in chub mackerels Scomber colias to characterize their digestive activity, feeding physiology and behaviour in captivity. Results obtained in the experiment can be used to optimize daily T. thynnus feeding s...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Díez G,Moreno G,Galaz T,Dagorn L,Murua J

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The composition, species richness and diversity of a coastal fish assemblage from the Kalpakkam coast of south-east India are described along with temporal distribution patterns related to seasonal fluctuations in dissolved oxygen, salinity, pH, chlorophyll-a, phytoplankton and zooplankton species richness and density...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Biswas S,Hussain KJ,Das NP,Russell BC,Satpathy KK,Mishra SS

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Portuguese dogfish Centroscymnus coelolepis is a wide-ranging deep-water shark and a common by-catch component of the catches of several mid- to deep-water fisheries. In the present study, two new records from the south-western Atlantic Ocean are reported based on specimens caught by bottom-longline fishing vessel...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Mas F,Forselledo R,Domingo A,Pin O,Troncoso P,Errico E,Marquez A,Tanaka S,Weigmann S

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper highlights possible effects of physical and chemical mechanisms of formalin fixation and preservation on biological tissue and reviews the consequent potential inaccuracies on estimates of body mass of small fishes fixed and preserved in formalin. Twenty-six papers including 65 independent experiments with ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Nordeide JT

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reports were compiled of sunfish (family Molidae) by-catch in Peruvian small-scale fisheries and sunfish by-catch rates were estimated using data from shore-based and onboard monitoring programmes. A total of 114 sunfishes were reported in the longline and gillnet fisheries along the Peru coast from 2005 to 2017. Syst...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Mangel JC,Pajuelo M,Pasara-Polack A,Vela G,Segura-Cobeña E,Alfaro-Shigueto J

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00