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SUBMITTER: Miller MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6501356 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Miller Michael J MJ Westerberg Håkan H Sparholt Henrik H Wysujack Klaus K Sørensen Sune R SR Marohn Lasse L Jacobsen Magnus W MW Freese Marko M Ayala Daniel J DJ Pohlmann Jan-Dag JD Svendsen Jon C JC Watanabe Shun S Andersen Line L Møller Peter R PR Tsukamoto Katsumi K Munk Peter P Hanel Reinhold R
Biology letters 20190401 4
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 a ...[more]