Leptocephalus larvae have transparent bodies with tubular intestines that usually lack
identifiable food items when they are collected, so mystery has surrounded efforts to …

The success of rapidly growing aquaculture industry depends on the steady supply of fish
seeds. Appropriate food for initial larval stages is critical for mass scale fish seed production …

Digestive system functionality of fish larvae relies on the onset of genetically pre-
programmed and extrinsically influenced digestive functions. This study explored how algal …

The SS-type rotifer Brachionus rotundiformis is a common initial food for rearing fish larvae
with a small mouth. However, there are commercially important fish species whose mouth …

Natural diets of leptocephalus larvae have been enigmatic. In this study, we collected DNA
samples from the gut contents and body surface of leptocephali belonging to the five …

As catadromous fishes, anguillid eels have a stage-structured life cycle involving continental
juvenile stages followed by diverse oceanic reproductive and larval stages. Within the latter …

A combination of several factors have produced an intense decline of the European eel
populations until becoming an endangered species, but the European eel is a demanded …

Freshwater eel (Anguilla japonica) is the main aquaculture fish species in Korea, but
artificial mass seed production has not been succeeded yet; eel aquaculture is therefore …

Proales similis and Brachionus rotundiformis are commercially cultured species, which
predominantly feed on microalgae. However, the importance of the bacterial community on …

Eel larvae apparently feed on marine snow, but many aspects of their feeding ecology
remain unknown. The eukaryotic 18S rRNA gene sequence compositions in the gut contents …