Migration, speciation, and the evolution of diadromy in anguillid eels

By K. Tsukamoto, J. Aoyama, Michael J. Miller. 2002

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Physiology

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Contrasting patterns of growth and migration of tropical anguillid leptocephali in the western Pacific and Indonesian Seas (2006, background): “…temperate anguillids appear to have very similar large-scale migrations and spawn in areas that enable their leptocephali to use low-latitude westward-flowing currents such as the NEC and SEC to transport them thousands of kilometers back to their juvenile growth habitats (Tsukamoto et al. 2002).”
Oceanic changes in the Sargasso Sea and declines in recruitment of the European eel (2007, background): “The distribution of the youngest larvae suggests that spawning takes place in specific areas that may facilitate mating and help place larvae in the appropriate west-flowing currents (Kleckner and McCleave, 1988; McCleave, 1993; Tsukamoto et al., 2002; Tsukamoto, 2006).”
Effect of El Niño on migration and larval transport of the Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica) (2007, background): “Tsukamoto et al. (2002) reported that Japanese eel larvae are usually distributed at the northern edge of the NEC, and that their size increases as they migrate west along the NEC.”
Variation in the annual growth, by sex and migration history, of silver American eels Anguilla rostrata (2004, background): “Thus, Tsukamoto & Arai (2001) and Tsukamoto et al. (2002) have hypothesized that marine/estuarine residency of Anguilla spp. should occur more frequently at high latitudes where the productivity of the freshwater habitat is lower than that of adjacent coastal regions.”
The European eel (Anguilla anguilla, Linnaeus), its Lifecycle, Evolution and Reproduction: A Literature Review (2005, background): “The exact cause for this phenomenon is unknown, but possible causes include: (a) contamination with toxic PCBs, which are released from fat stores during their long-distance migration and interfere with reproduction (Castonguay et al. 1994); (b) infection with the swimbladder parasite Anguillicola c”
Adaptive phenotypic plasticity of eel diadromy (2007, background): “The genus Anguilla originates from tropical oceans where it probably developed diadromy (Tsukamoto et al. 2002), which may therefore be viewed as an ancestral trait.”
Geographic effects on American eel (Anguilla rostrata) life history characteristics and strategies (2010, background): “Their large migration loops (migratory route between spawning area and growth habitat) may exceed 6000 km in diameter and, combined with a catadromous lifestyle, may contribute to the development of spatial genetic heterogeneity (Tsukamoto et al. 2002; Maes et al. 2009).”
Positive buoyancy in eel leptocephali: an adaptation for life in the ocean surface layer (2009, background): “meters that are made by the freshwater eels of the genus Anguilla have fascinated biologists for more than a century (Tsukamoto et al. 2002), but the unique morphology and biology of their leptocephali still remains mysterious.”
Ecology of Anguilliform Leptocephali: Remarkable Transparent Fish Larvae of the Ocean Surface Layer (2009, background): “Temperate and some tropical anguillid larvae have a strategy of using westward flowing currents to transport them back to their recruitment areas while they feed and grow to their maximum larval size (Tsukamoto et al. 2002; Kuroki et al. 2008a, 2009a,b).”
Where once the eel and the elephant were together: decline of the European eel because of changing hydrology in southwest Europe and northwest Africa? (2011, background): “Two thirds of the anguillid species are currently restricted to the tropics, and seven of these have limited coastal ranges in the western Pacific around Indonesia (Tsukamoto et al. 2002).”