Stable isotopic composition of anguilliform leptocephali and other food web components from west of the Mascarene Plateau
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A low trophic position of Japanese eel larvae indicates feeding on marine snow.
What eel larvae feed on in the surface layer of the ocean has remained mysterious. Gut contents and bulk nitrogen stable isotope studies suggested that these unusual larvae, called leptocephali, feed at a low level in the oceanic food web, whereas other types of evidence have suggested that small zooplankton are eaten. In this study, we determined the nitrogen isotopic composition of amino acid...
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