ArticleNature communications2015
Direct observations of American eels migrating across the continental shelf to the Sargasso Sea.
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- Panmixia in the American eel extends to its tropical range of distribution: Biological implications and policymaking challenges.Evolutionary applications · 2023Article
- First direct evidence of adult European eels migrating to their breeding place in the Sargasso Sea.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Mapping silver eel migration routes in the North Sea.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The mysterious ecosystem at the ocean's surface.PLoS biology · 2021Review
- New clues on the Atlantic eels spawning behavior and area: the Mid-Atlantic Ridge hypothesis.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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- Tracking the marine migration routes of South Pacific silver eels.Marine ecology progress series · 2020Article
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- Seaward Migration Routes of Indigenous Eels,Zoological studies · 2018Article
- RAD-Seq Reveals Patterns of Additive Polygenic Variation Caused by Spatially-Varying Selection in the American Eel (Anguilla rostrata).Genome biology and evolution · 2017Article
- Autonomous reciprocating migration of an active material.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
- Glass eels (Science advances · 2017Article
- Can spatial sorting associated with spawning migration explain evolution of body size and vertebral number inEcology and evolution · 2017Article
- Widespread episodic thiamine deficiency in Northern Hemisphere wildlife.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Empirical observations of the spawning migration of European eels: The long and dangerous road to the Sargasso Sea.Science advances · 2016Article
- Sexually dimorphic gene expressions in eels: useful markers for early sex assessment in a conservation context.Scientific reports · 2016Article
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Abstract
Since inferring spawning areas from larval distributions in the Sargasso Sea a century ago, the oceanic migration of adult American eels has remained a mystery. No adult eel has ever been observed migrating in the open ocean or in the spawning area. Here, we track movements of maturing eels equipped with pop-up satellite archival tags from the Scotian Shelf (Canada) into the open ocean, with one individual migrating 2,400 km to the northern limit of the spawning site in the Sargasso Sea. The reconstructed routes suggest a migration in two phases: one over the continental shelf and along its edge in shallow waters; the second in deeper waters straight south towards the spawning area. This study is the first direct evidence of adult Anguilla migrating to the Sargasso Sea and represents an important step forward in the understanding of routes and migratory cues.
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