Volume 75 · Number 3 · May 2009 ISSN 0919-9268
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Giuseppa Buscaino, Gaspare Buffa, Gianluca Sarà, Antonio Bellante, Antonio Josè Tonello, Fernando Augusto Sliva Hardt, Marta Jussara Cremer, Angelo Bonanno, Angela Cuttitta and Salvatore Mazzola … 537
Density and sound-speed contrasts, and target strength of Japanese sandeel Ammodytes personatusHiroki Yasuma, Ryo Nakagawa, Takashi Yamakawa, Kazushi Miyashita and Ichiro Aoki … 545
Akihiko Ebisawa and Takakazu Ozawa … 553
Morphological features and functions of bluefin tuna change with growthYumiko Tamura and Tsutomu Takagi … 567
Ontogenetic and diel variation in the vertical distribution of larvae of jack mackerel Trachurus japonicus in the East China seaYuuichi Hirota, Hitoshi Honda, Hideo Sakaji and Shinji Uehara … 577
Seasonal distribution pattern of adult sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus (Stichopodidae) in Yoshimi Bay, western Yamaguchi Prefecture, JapanYusuke Yamana, Tatsuo Hamano and Seiji Goshima … 585
Mitochondrial DNA variation in the East China Sea and Yellow Sea populations of Japanese Spanish mackerel Scomberomorus niphoniusBo-Nian Shui, Zhi-Qiang Han, Tian-Xiang Gao, Zhen-Qing Miao and Takashi Yanagimoto … 593
Spatial variation of quantitative color traits in green and black types of sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus (Stichopodidae) using image processingKatsumasa Yamada, Masakazu Hori, Susumu Matsuno, Tatsuo Hamano and Masami Hamaguchi … 601
Spatiotemporal variations in nutritional status and feeding habits of immature female bighand thornyhead Sebastolobus macrochir off the Pacific coast of northern Honshu, JapanTsutomu Hattori, Takehiro Okuda, Yoji Narimatsu, Yuji Ueda and Masaki Ito … 611
Comparison of the nutritional transition date distributions of marbled sole larvae and juveniles in Hakodate Bay, HokkaidoMikimasa Joh, Tetsuya Takatsu, Mitsuhiro Nakaya, Naoto Yoshida and Masayasu Nakagami … 619
Estimation of temporal changes in the growth of green turtles Chelonia mydas in waters around the Ogasawara IslandsEiji Tanaka … 629
Prediction of timing of mating and egg extrusion in the coconut crab Birgus latro judged from female pleonal expansionTaku Sato and Kenzo Yoseda … 641
Spawning frequency of the Tsushima Current subpopulation of chub mackerel Scomber japonicus off Kyushu, JapanTetsuro Shiraishi, Suvarna D. Ketkar, Yoshiki Katoh, Mitsuo Nyuji, Akihiko Yamaguchi and Michiya Matsuyama … 649
Henneguya pseudorhinogobii n. sp. (Myxozoa: Myxosporea) parasitizing the gills of the freshwater goby Rhinogobius sp. OR from the Nagara River and redescription of HenneguyarhinogobiiTetsushi Kageyama, Tetsuya Yanagida, Kenichi Ohara and Hiroshi Yokoyama … 657
Seung-Cheol Ji, Osamu Takaoka, Si-Woo Lee, Jae-Ho Hwang, Yang-Su Kim, Katsuya Ishimaru, Manabu Seoka, Gwan-Sik Jeong and Kenji Takii … 665
Molecular cloning and expression analysis of the BPI/LBP cDNA and its gene from ayu Plecoglossus altivelis altivelisKyuma Suzuki, Shotaro Izumi, Hideki Tanaka and Takayuki Katagiri … 673
Estimation of the mode of inheritance of thermal tolerance in the guppy Poecilia reticulataMasamichi Nakajima, Kimitada Fujisawa and Nobuhiko Taniguchi … 683
Growth stimulation of juvenile abalone Haliotis discus hannai by feeding with salmon growth hormone in sodium alginate gelShunsuke Moriyama, Suehiro Furukawa and Hiroshi Kawauchi … 689
Nutritional evaluation of rotifers in rearing tanks without water exchange during seed production of amberjack Seriola dumeriliTakeshi Yamamoto, Kazuhisa Teruya, Takashi Hara, Hiroto Hokazono, Isao Kai, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Hirofumi Furuita, Hiroyuki Matsunari and Keiichi Mushiake … 697
Repeatable immersion infection with Photobacterium damselae subsp. piscicida reproducing clinical signs and moderate mortalityIchiro Nagano, Seiko Inoue, Kenji Kawai and Syun-ichirou Oshima … 707
Koetsu Kon, Naoya Kawakubo, Jyun-Ichi Aoki, Prasert Tongnunui, Ken-Ichi Hayashizaki and Hisashi Kurokura … 715
Hung Dinh Le, Tomomi Sato, Hiromi Shibata and Kanji Hori … 723
Cadmium detoxification effect of Chinese parsley Coriandrum sativum in liver and kidney of rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykissHuifeng Ren, Huijuan Jia, Hideaki Endo and Tetsuhito Hayashi … 731
Cloning, expression, and characterization of a novel anti-HIV lectin from the cultured cyanobacterium, Oscillatoria agardhiiTomomi Sato and Kanji Hori … 743
Comparative study on general properties of alginate lyases from some marine gastropod mollusksMami Hata, Yuya Kumagai, Mohammad Matiur Rahman, Satoru Chiba, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Akira Inoue and Takao Ojima … 755
Characteristics of a self-assembled fibrillar gel prepared from red stingray collagenInwoo Bae, Kiyoshi Osatomi, Asami Yoshida, Atsuko Yamaguchi, Katsuyasu Tachibana, Tatsuya Oda and Kenji Hara … 765
Direct contact between Pseudo-nitzschia multiseries and bacteria is necessary for the diatom to produce a high level of domoic acidKenji Kobayashi, Yoshinobu Takata and Masaaki Kodama … 771
Induction of larval metamorphosis in the sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus by neurotransmittersHiroshi Matsuura, Ikuko Yazaki and Tatsufumi Okino … 777
Anupam Giri, Kazufumi Osako and Toshiaki Ohshima … 785
Suppressing effect of neocarrabiose 4-O-sulfate on thermal and freeze denaturation of myosin subfragment-1 and myofibrilsKumiko Hayashi, Kunihiko Konno, Kyoko Adachi, Takeshi Nawamura, Yoshikazu Shizuri, Yuji Okita and Ikuo Kimura … 797
Improvement of the extraction procedure for hyaluronan from fish eyeball and the molecular characterizationIchika Amagai, Yuri Tashiro and Hiroo Ogawa … 805
Authentication of flying-fish-meal content of processed food using PCR-RFLPMitsutoshi Nagase, Kazuhiko Maeta, Tadanori Aimi, Katsuaki Suginaka and Tsutomu Morinaga … 811
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