1. Pinger affects fish catch efficiency and damage to bottom gill nets related to bottlenose dolphins

   • Giuseppa Buscaino
   • Gaspare Buffa
   • Salvatore Mazzola

   Original Article 17 March 2009 Pages: 537 - 544

   

2. Density and sound-speed contrasts, and target strength of Japanese sandeel Ammodytes personatus

   • Hiroki Yasuma
   • Ryo Nakagawa
   • Ichiro Aoki

   Original Article 24 March 2009 Pages: 545 - 552

   

3. Life-history traits of eight Lethrinus species from two local populations in waters off the Ryukyu Islands

   • Akihiko Ebisawa
   • Takakazu Ozawa

   Original Article 12 March 2009 Pages: 553 - 566

   

4. Morphological features and functions of bluefin tuna change with growth

   • Yumiko Tamura
   • Tsutomu Takagi

   Original Article 10 March 2009 Pages: 567 - 575

   

5. Ontogenetic and diel variation in the vertical distribution of larvae of jack mackerel Trachurus japonicus in the East China sea

   • Yuuichi Hirota
   • Hitoshi Honda
   • Shinji Uehara

   Original Article 14 March 2009 Pages: 577 - 584

   

6. Seasonal distribution pattern of adult sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus (Stichopodidae) in Yoshimi Bay, western Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan

   • Yusuke Yamana
   • Tatsuo Hamano
   • Seiji Goshima

   Original Article 07 April 2009 Pages: 585 - 591

   

7. Mitochondrial DNA variation in the East China Sea and Yellow Sea populations of Japanese Spanish mackerel Scomberomorus niphonius

   • Bo-Nian Shui
   • Zhi-Qiang Han
   • Takashi Yanagimoto

   Original Article 20 March 2009 Pages: 593 - 600

   

8. Spatial variation of quantitative color traits in green and black types of sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus (Stichopodidae) using image processing

   • Katsumasa Yamada
   • Masakazu Hori
   • Masami Hamaguchi

   Original Article 14 March 2009 Pages: 601 - 610

   

9. Spatiotemporal variations in nutritional status and feeding habits of immature female bighand thornyhead Sebastolobus macrochir off the Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan

   • Tsutomu Hattori
   • Takehiro Okuda
   • Masaki Ito

   Original Article 19 March 2009 Pages: 611 - 618

   

10. Comparison of the nutritional transition date distributions of marbled sole larvae and juveniles in Hakodate Bay, Hokkaido

    • Mikimasa Joh
    • Tetsuya Takatsu
    • Masayasu Nakagami

    Original Article 20 March 2009 Pages: 619 - 628

    

11. Estimation of temporal changes in the growth of green turtles Chelonia mydas in waters around the Ogasawara Islands

    • Eiji Tanaka

    Original Article 17 April 2009 Pages: 629 - 639

    

12. Prediction of timing of mating and egg extrusion in the coconut crab Birgus latro judged from female pleonal expansion

    • Taku Sato
    • Kenzo Yoseda

    Original Article 10 April 2009 Pages: 641 - 648

    

13. Spawning frequency of the Tsushima Current subpopulation of chub mackerel Scomber japonicus off Kyushu, Japan

    • Tetsuro Shiraishi
    • Suvarna D. Ketkar
    • Michiya Matsuyama

    Original Article 02 April 2009 Pages: 649 - 655

    

14. Henneguya pseudorhinogobii n. sp. (Myxozoa: Myxosporea) parasitizing the gills of the freshwater goby Rhinogobius sp. OR from the Nagara River and redescription of Henneguya rhinogobii

    • Tetsushi Kageyama
    • Tetsuya Yanagida
    • Hiroshi Yokoyama

    Original Article 10 April 2009 Pages: 657 - 663

    

15. Effect of dietary medicinal herbs on lipid metabolism and stress recovery in red sea bream Pagrus major

    • Seung-Cheol Ji
    • Osamu Takaoka
    • Kenji Takii

    Original Article 27 March 2009 Pages: 665 - 672

    

16. Molecular cloning and expression analysis of the BPI/LBP cDNA and its gene from ayu Plecoglossus altivelis altivelis

    • Kyuma Suzuki
    • Shotaro Izumi
    • Takayuki Katagiri

    Original Article 12 March 2009 Pages: 673 - 681

    

17. Estimation of the mode of inheritance of thermal tolerance in the guppy Poecilia reticulata

    • Masamichi Nakajima
    • Kimitada Fujisawa
    • Nobuhiko Taniguchi

    Original Article 02 April 2009 Pages: 683 - 687

18. Growth stimulation of juvenile abalone Haliotis discus hannai by feeding with salmon growth hormone in sodium alginate gel

    • Shunsuke Moriyama
    • Suehiro Furukawa
    • Hiroshi Kawauchi

    Original Article 25 March 2009 Pages: 689 - 695

    

19. Nutritional evaluation of rotifers in rearing tanks without water exchange during seed production of amberjack Seriola dumerili

    • Takeshi Yamamoto
    • Kazuhisa Teruya
    • Keiichi Mushiake

    Original Article 28 March 2009 Pages: 697 - 705

    

20. Repeatable immersion infection with Photobacterium damselae subsp. piscicida reproducing clinical signs and moderate mortality

    • Ichiro Nagano
    • Seiko Inoue
    • Syun-ichirou Oshima

    Original Article 15 April 2009 Pages: 707 - 714

    

21. Effect of shrimp farming organic waste on food availability for deposit feeder crabs in a mangrove estuary, based on stable isotope analysis

    • Koetsu Kon
    • Naoya Kawakubo
    • Hisashi Kurokura

    Original Article 10 March 2009 Pages: 715 - 722

    

22. Biochemical comparison of lectins among three different color strains of the red alga Kappaphycus alvarezii

    • Hung Dinh Le
    • Tomomi Sato
    • Kanji Hori

    Original Article 24 March 2009 Pages: 723 - 730

    

23. Cadmium detoxification effect of Chinese parsley Coriandrum sativum in liver and kidney of rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss

    • Huifeng Ren
    • Huijuan Jia
    • Tetsuhito Hayashi

    Original Article 10 March 2009 Pages: 731 - 741

    

24. Cloning, expression, and characterization of a novel anti-HIV lectin from the cultured cyanobacterium, Oscillatoria agardhii

    • Tomomi Sato
    • Kanji Hori

    Original Article 19 March 2009 Pages: 743 - 753

    

25. Comparative study on general properties of alginate lyases from some marine gastropod mollusks

    • Mami Hata
    • Yuya Kumagai
    • Takao Ojima

    Original Article 12 March 2009 Pages: 755 - 763

    

26. Characteristics of a self-assembled fibrillar gel prepared from red stingray collagen

    • Inwoo Bae
    • Kiyoshi Osatomi
    • Kenji Hara

    Original Article 18 March 2009 Pages: 765 - 770

    

27. Direct contact between Pseudo-nitzschia multiseries and bacteria is necessary for the diatom to produce a high level of domoic acid

    • Kenji Kobayashi
    • Yoshinobu Takata
    • Masaaki Kodama

    Original Article 25 March 2009 Pages: 771 - 776

    

28. Induction of larval metamorphosis in the sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus by neurotransmitters

    • Hiroshi Matsuura
    • Ikuko Yazaki
    • Tatsufumi Okino

    Original Article 07 April 2009 Pages: 777 - 783

    

29. Effect of raw materials on the extractive components and taste aspects of fermented fish paste: sakana miso

    • Anupam Giri
    • Kazufumi Osako
    • Toshiaki Ohshima

    Original Article 14 March 2009 Pages: 785 - 796

    

30. Suppressing effect of neocarrabiose 4-O-sulfate on thermal and freeze denaturation of myosin subfragment-1 and myofibrils

    • Kumiko Hayashi
    • Kunihiko Konno
    • Ikuo Kimura

    Original Article 17 March 2009 Pages: 797 - 803

    

31. Improvement of the extraction procedure for hyaluronan from fish eyeball and the molecular characterization

    • Ichika Amagai
    • Yuri Tashiro
    • Hiroo Ogawa

    Original Article 17 April 2009 Pages: 805 - 810

    

32. Authentication of flying-fish-meal content of processed food using PCR-RFLP

    • Mitsutoshi Nagase
    • Kazuhiko Maeta
    • Tsutomu Morinaga

    Original Article 18 April 2009 Pages: 811 - 816