Ethical considerations in fish research.

abstract：:The present study is the first to provide data on the reproductive biology of cuckoo ray Leucoraja naevus in Portuguese continental waters. No difference in size at maturity was detected between sexes, which was estimated as 56 cm total length. Spawning occurs all year round, but maximum activity was during winter mon...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Maia C,Erzini K,Serra-Pereira B,Figueiredo I

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seasonal and ontogenetic shifts in the diet of Arctic charr Salvelinus alpinus were studied in a deep, ultra-oligotrophic lake in subarctic Finland from both stomach contents and the stable carbon (delta(13)C) and nitrogen (delta(15)N) isotope compositions of muscle and liver tissues. Both diet and isotope results ind...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Eloranta AP,Kahilainen KK,Jones RI

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Association preferences and aggression intensity were investigated in relation to kin and familiarity in the self-fertilizing, clonal vertebrate, the mangrove killifish Kryptolebias marmoratus. Results indicated that fish preferentially associated with and exhibited less intense aggression towards members of their own...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Edenbrow M,Croft DP

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dominancy of semi-wild and hatchery-reared white-spotted charr Salvelinus leucomaenis juveniles was evaluated using pair-wise enclosure tests and field stocking tests. The semi-wild S. leucomaenis originated in a hatchery, being stocked into the test stream as eyed-eggs. In the pair-wise enclosure test, the semi-w...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Nakamura T,Doi T

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：:Female response to various aspects of male trait morphology and the effect of female feeding motivation were investigated in the swordtail characin Corynopoma riisei, a species where males are equipped with a flag-like food-mimicking ornament that grows from the operculum. Unfed females responded more strongly to the ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Amcoff M,Kolm N

更新日期：2013-08-01 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：:Seventeen individuals of ide Leuciscus idus were radio-tracked weekly from September 2003 to September 2004 in the River Elbe, Czech Republic, to examine migration patterns and the influence of environmental factors on their diurnal behaviour. Of the 10 environmental factors measured, L. idus were significantly influe...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Kulísková P,Horký P,Slavík O,Jones JI

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new brain-cell line derived from Japanese flounder Paralichthys olivaceus (POBC) was established. POBC was subcultured for 67 passages over the course of 420 days. The cultured cells were primarily epithelioid-like. Chromosome analysis revealed the cell line to possess the normal P. olivaceus diploid karyotype of 2n...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Zheng Y,Peng LM,You F,Zou YX,Zhang PJ,Chen SL

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary origin of the only north-west Saharan haplochromine cichlid, Astatotilapia desfontainii, was explored using mitochondrial DNA sequences. Phylogenetic analyses revealed that this species belonged to the main East African-Nilotic haplochromine clade, but was a distinct lineage that diverged from modern ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Genner MJ,Haesler MP

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All extant holocephalans (Chimaeroidei) have lost the ability to make individual teeth, as tooth germs are not part of the embryonic development of the dental plates or of their continuous growth. Instead, a hypermineralized dentine with a unique mineral, whitlockin, is specifically distributed within a dentine framew...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Smith M,Manzanares E,Underwood C,Healy C,Clark B,Johanson Z

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sedentary, predatory characin Hoplias malabaricus has one of the widest distributions of freshwater fishes in South America and is characterized by seven karyomorphs (A-G) that occur in sympatric and allopatric populations. Karyotypical patterns of variation in wild populations have been interpreted as evidence of...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Santos U,Völcker CM,Belei FA,Cioffi MB,Bertollo LA,Paiva SR,Dergam JA

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Juvenile and adult scale characteristics were used to compare two juvenile groups of Atlantic salmon in a large subarctic river in northern Scandinavia: individuals that have migrated from the main stem into small tributaries and those which remain in the main stem. Body size and scale measurements indicated enhanced ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Erkinaro J,Dempson JB,Julkunen M,Niemelä E

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study reports a previously undocumented mass spawning aggregation and group spawning phenomena of c. 1200 individual bumphead parrotfish Bolbometopon muricatum in Palau, Micronesia. Although B. muricatum are protected in Palau, it is further recommended that management strategies should consider establishm...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Roff G,Doropoulos C,Mereb G,Mumby PJ

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study indicated that the life-history traits of European barracuda Sphyraena sphyraena are apparently better suited to their environmental conditions compared to the more physically restricted life-history traits of the yellow-mouth barracuda Sphyraena viridensis, which co-habit the north-western Mediterranean Se...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Villegas-Hernández H,Muñoz M,Lloret J

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Populations of endemic Croatian dace were found to belong to two different species, one of which is first described in this study. Telestes karsticus sp. nov. differed morphologically from Telestes polylepis in the total count of lateral line scales, number of gill rakers and the shape of the posterior margin of the a...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Marčić Z,Buj I,Duplić A,Caleta M,Mustafić P,Zanella D,Zupančič P,Mrakovčić M

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dataset including novel and publicly available mtDNA COI sequences of 14 Mediterranean combtooth blenny species belonging to nine genera was assembled in order to provide a reference dataset for DNA barcoding studies. Some inconsistencies in the current taxonomy of some genera were observed. In particular, the monop...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Vecchioni L,Marrone F,Belaiba E,Tiralongo F,Bahri-Sfar L,Arculeo M

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ichthyoplankton sampling and ovarian characteristics were used to elucidate whether the reproductive cycles of a spawning aggregation of snapper Pagrus auratus in a nearshore marine embayment were temporally and spatially specific and related with environmental conditions. The reproductive dynamics of this aggregation...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Wakefield CB

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents a new chemical double-marking technique for European glass eels Anguilla anguilla by combing alizarin red S (ARS) and strontium chloride hexahydrate (Sr). Marked eels (double marked with ARS and Sr, but also single marked with ARS) were exposed in situ to brackish water (15 g l-1 artificial sea sal...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Kullmann B,Hempel M,Thiel R

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, a flow-cytometric cell cycle analysis method to assess instantaneous growth rate of whole larvae of the Australian barramundi Lates calcarifer was developed and validated. High-resolution DNA measurements of either fresh, frozen or RNAlater-preserved larvae (gap0-gap1, G(0) -G(1), coefficient of variati...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Domingos JA,Fromm P,Smith-Keune C,Jerry DR

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The numbers of different types of ovarian follicles (developing, degenerating and postovulatory follicles) were estimated in bluefin tuna Thunnus thynnus using two stereological procedures: the model-based method of Weibel & Gomez, which has become a tool of broad application in the quantification of oocytes in fishes...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Aragón L,Aranda G,Santos A,Medina A

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accounting for energy use by fishes has been taking place for over 200 years. The original, and continuing gold standard for measuring energy use in terrestrial animals, is to account for the waste heat produced by all reactions of metabolism, a process referred to as direct calorimetry. Direct calorimetry is not easy...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Nelson JA

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Needlefishes (Beloniformes) were observed employing a range of stalking and attacking behaviours to attack schools of bait fishes ranging from the use of tactics common to predatory fishes to a novel behaviour: the use of leaping, aerial attacks. These aerial attacks are suggested to serve two purposes: to extend the ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Day RD,Mueller F,Carseldine L,Meyers-Cherry N,Tibbetts IR

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medaka (O. latipes) and zebrafish (D. rerio) are two teleost fish increasingly used as models to study human skeletal diseases. Although they are similar in size, swimming pattern and many other characteristics, these two species are very distant from an evolutionary point of view (by at least 100 million years). A pr...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Ofer L,Zaslansky P,Shahar R

更新日期：2020-04-02 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：:Potamotrygon marquesi, sp. nov., is described and compared with other species of Potamotrygon occurring in the Amazon Basin. The identity of this new species is supported by an extensive external and internal morphological study including coloration pattern, squamation, skeleton and ventral lateral-line canals. Morpho...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Capretz Batista da Silva JP,Silva Loboda T

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coping style is defined as a set of individual physiological and behavioural characteristics that are consistent across time and context. In the zebrafish Danio rerio, as well as in many other animals, several covariations have been established among behavioural, physiological and molecular responses. Nonetheless, not...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Alfonso S,Peyrafort M,Cousin X,Bégout ML

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the effects of four types of antinutritional factor (phytic acid, stachyose, soy saponins and soy isoflavones) on lipoprotein levels in plasma of Japanese flounder Paralichthys olivaceus. A basal diet was prepared with fish meal as primary protein source, the other diets were supplemented with 0·2,...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Deng JM,Mai KS,Ai QH,Zhang WB,Wang XJ,Xu W,Liufu ZG,Cai YH,Chen W

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diets of the pipefish Stigmatopora nigra were analysed to determine if food availability was causing S. nigra to distribute according to habitat edge effects. Gut analysis found little difference in the diets of S. nigra at the edge and interior of seagrass patches, regardless of time of day or season. Fish diets did,...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Smith TM,Hindell JS,Jenkins GP,Connolly RM,Keough MJ

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the feeding behaviour of the non-native invasive predatory fishes largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides and bluegill Lepomis macrochirus was studied in the Ezura River, a northern tributary of Lake Biwa, Japan. Prey composition was estimated based on visual examination of stomach contents and faecal DNA...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Taguchi T,Miura Y,Krueger D,Sugiura S

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00