ArticleScientific reports2015
Born small, die young: Intrinsic, size-selective mortality in marine larval fish.
Article in Scientific reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 118 citations in OpenAlex.
- Genetic differentiation of the supralittoral gastropod Tectarius striatus (North Atlantic Archipelagos) and development of new microsatellite resources.BMC ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Environmental microbial communities and host selection shape larval microbiomes.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Reproduction and embryonic development of monkeyface prickleback Cebidichthys violaceus in captivity.Journal of fish biology · 2026Article
- Article
- Plasticity of Dispersal-Related Larval Traits in the Clown AnemonefishEcology and evolution · 2025Article
- Natural Spawning, Early Development, and First Successful Hatchery Production of the Vermiculated Angelfish (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Increased offspring provisioning by large female fish and consequences for reproductive efficiency.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Temperature and prey density drive growth and otolith formation of the world's most valuable fish stock.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Multistressor global change drivers reduce hatch and viability of Lingcod embryos, a benthic egg layer in the California Current System.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Genomic basis for early-life mortality in sharpsnout seabream.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Timing of reproduction modifies transgenerational effects of chronic exposure to stressors in an annual vertebrate.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Genomic prediction of growth in a commercially, recreationally, and culturally important marine resource, the Australian snapper (Chrysophrys auratus).G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2022Article
- Type of hormonal treatment administered to induce vitellogenesis in European eel influences biochemical composition of eggs and yolk-sac larvae.Fish physiology and biochemistry · 2022Article
- A novel gnotobiotic experimental system for Atlantic salmon (Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022Article
- Estimating the spawning and growth of striped snakehead Channa striata Bloch, 1793 in Lake Rawa Pening Indonesia.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Individual-based population genomics reveal different drivers of adaptation in sympatric fish.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Evolutionary responses to crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill by the copepodEvolutionary applications · 2017Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
10 authors at 8 institutions in 5 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Mortality during the early stages is a major cause of the natural variations in the size and recruitment strength of marine fish populations. In this study, the relation between the size-at-hatch and early survival was assessed using laboratory experiments and on field-caught larvae of the European sardine (Sardina pilchardus). Larval size-at-hatch was not related to the egg size but was significantly, positively related to the diameter of the otolith-at-hatch. Otolith diameter-at-hatch was also significantly correlated with survival-at-age in fed and unfed larvae in the laboratory. For sardine larvae collected in the Bay of Biscay during the spring of 2008, otolith radius-at-hatch was also significantly related to viability. Larval mortality has frequently been related to adverse environmental conditions and intrinsic factors affecting feeding ability and vulnerability to predators. Our study offers evidence indicating that a significant portion of fish mortality occurs during the endogenous (yolk) and mixed (yolk /prey) feeding period in the absence of predators, revealing that marine fish with high fecundity, such as small pelagics, can spawn a relatively large amount of eggs resulting in small larvae with no chances to survive. Our findings help to better understand the mass mortalities occurring at early stages of marine fish.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.