ArticleBiology letters2019
Spawning by the European eel across 2000 km of the Sargasso Sea.
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- Details on the transport of European eel larvae through the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean Sea.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Eels' individual migratory behavior stems from a complex syndrome involving cognition, behavior, physiology, and life history.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- 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
- Changes in Dendritic Spine Morphology and Density of Granule Cells in the Olfactory Bulb ofBiology · 2022Article
- No new evidence for an Atlantic eels spawning area outside the Sargasso Sea.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Ecological adaptation in European eels is based on phenotypic plasticity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
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- First Observation of a Spontaneously Matured Female European Eel (Anguilla anguilla).Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Distribution of anguillid leptocephali and possible spawning areas in the South Pacific Ocean.Progress in oceanography · 2020Article
- Unravelling the changes during induced vitellogenesis in female European eel through RNA-Seq: What happens to the liver?PloS one · 2020Article
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Abstract
It has been known for about a century that European eels have a unique life history that includes offshore spawning in the Sargasso Sea about 5000-7000 km away from their juvenile and adult habitats in Europe and northern Africa. Recently hatched eel larvae were historically collected during Danish, German and American surveys in specific areas in the southern Sargasso Sea. During a 31 day period of March and April 2014, Danish and German research ships sampled for European eel larvae along 15 alternating transects of stations across the Sargasso Sea. The collection of recently hatched eel larvae (≤12 mm) from 70° W and eastward to 50° W showed that the European eel had been spawning across a 2000 km wide region of the North Atlantic Ocean. Historical collections made from 1921 to 2007 showed that small larvae had also previously been collected in this wide longitudinal zone, showing that the spatial extent of spawning has not diminished in recent decades, irrespective of the dramatic decline in recruitment. The use of such a wide spawning area may be related to variations in the onset of the silver eel spawning migration, individual differences in their long-term swimming ability, or aspects of larval drift.
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