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| Arleny, Ina; Tabouret, Helene; Rodriguez Gonzalez, Pablo Rodriguez; Bareille, Gilles; Donard, Olivier; Amouroux, David. |
| The life history of the European Eel (Anguilla anguilla) begins in the Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic Ocean where the Leptocephalus larvae drift with the gulf stream in order to reach European coastal waters. After their metamorphosis into transparent juveniles "glass" eels and an acclimatising phase in the estuaries, they migrate upstream into the rivers to become yellow eels (sub-adult stage). The yellow eels spend between 2 and 20 years of their lifetime in freshwater until they change into silver eels (adult stage) and finally migrate back to the Atlantic Ocean for spawning (Gomez-Mourelo, 2005). A. anguilla is thus an organism able to tolerate a wide range of environmental conditions, such as variations in oxygen availability, different ranges of... |
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| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2007/publication-3072.pdf |
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