1. Molecular cloning of a cDNA encoding vitellogenesis-inhibiting hormone in the whiteleg shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei and preparation of its recombinant peptide using an E. coli expression system

   • Naoaki Tsutsui
   • Tsuyoshi Ohira
   • Marcy N. Wilder

   Original Article 24 February 2013 Pages: 357 - 365

   

2. Re-examination of age and growth of daggertooth pike conger Muraenesox cinereus in the western Seto Inland Sea, Japan

   • Shingo Watari
   • Minoru Murata
   • Makoto Ishitani

   Original Article 13 March 2013 Pages: 367 - 373

   

3. Anguilla huangi Teng, Lin, and Tzeng, 2009, is a junior synonym of Anguilla luzonensis Watanabe, Aoyama, and Tsukamoto, 2009

   • Shun Watanabe
   • Jun Aoyama
   • Katsumi Tsukamoto

   Original Article 23 April 2013 Pages: 375 - 383

   

4. Recruitment patterns and early growth of acroporid corals in Manado, Indonesia

   • Minlee Yap
   • Kakaskasen Andreas Roeroe
   • Mineo Okamoto

   Original Article 19 March 2013 Pages: 385 - 395

   

5. New type of heat shock protein 70 homologue gene abounds in the genomic sequence of kuruma shrimp Marsupenaeus japonicus

   • Aiko Shitara
   • Hidehiro Kondo
   • Ikuo Hirono

   Original Article 19 March 2013 Pages: 397 - 405

   

6. Video observation of an eel in the Anguilla japonica spawning area along the West Mariana Ridge

   • Katsumi Tsukamoto
   • Noritaka Mochioka
   • Jun Aoyama

   Original Article 09 April 2013 Pages: 407 - 416

   

7. Vertical behavior of juvenile yellowfin tuna Thunnus albacares in the southwestern part of Japan based on archival tagging

   • Takayuki Matsumoto
   • Takashi Kitagawa
   • Shingo Kimura

   Original Article 03 April 2013 Pages: 417 - 424

   

8. Evaluation of the pigmentation stages and body proportions from the glass eel to yellow eel in Anguilla japonica

   • Nobuto Fukuda
   • Michael J. Miller
   • Katsumi Tsukamoto

   Original Article 24 April 2013 Pages: 425 - 438

   

9. Identification of insulin-like growth factor I gene polymorphisms using high-resolution melting and its effect on growth traits in sinipercid species

   • Haifang Wang
   • Jijia Sun
   • Guifeng Li

   Original Article 16 March 2013 Pages: 439 - 446

   

10. Effects of biotechnologically processed soybean meals in a nonfishmeal diet on growth performance, bile acid status, and morphological condition of the distal intestine and liver of rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss

    • Koji Murashita
    • Atsushi Akimoto
    • Takeshi Yamamoto

    Original Article 28 March 2013 Pages: 447 - 457

    

11. Effects of n-3 highly unsaturated fatty acid content in Artemia on survival and development of laboratory-reared horsehair crab Erimacrus isenbeckii larvae

    • Tadao Jinbo
    • Shigeki Dan
    • Katsuyuki Hamasaki

    Original Article 31 March 2013 Pages: 459 - 467

    

12. Effect of seaweed epibiotic bacterium Streptomyces violaceoruber SCH-09 on marine fouling organisms

    • Yong-Ki Hong
    • Ji Young Cho

    Original Article 06 March 2013 Pages: 469 - 475

    

13. Purification and characterization of alkaline phosphatase from the gut of sea cucumber Stichopus japonicus

    • Hai-Tao Wu
    • Dong-Mei Li
    • Chen-Xu Yu

    Original Article 12 April 2013 Pages: 477 - 485

    

14. Evaluation of the bioactivities of water-soluble extracts from twelve deep-sea jellyfish species

    • Takenori Kawabata
    • Dhugal J. Lindsay
    • Hiroshi Nagai

    Original Article Open access 10 April 2013 Pages: 487 - 494

    

15. Free radical scavenging ability and structure of a 90-kDa protein from the scallop shell

    • Takuya Mitsuhashi
    • Kohji Ono
    • Yasushi Hasegawa

    Original Article 29 March 2013 Pages: 495 - 502

    

16. Suppressive effect of ATP on autoxidation of tuna oxymyoglobin to metmyoglobin

    • Kota Inohara
    • Ikuo Kimura
    • Chunhong Yuan

    Original Article 18 April 2013 Pages: 503 - 511

    

17. Rhamnose-binding lectins induce respiratory burst activity in macrophage cells from rainbow trout

    • Yasuharu Watanabe
    • Yin-Hsuan Chang
    • Koji Muramoto

    Original Article 19 April 2013 Pages: 513 - 519

    

18. Species identification of imported and Japanese commercial green algal products based on phylogenetic analyses using the nrITS2 and 5S rDNA spacer regions

    • Yuumi Kawashima
    • Tetsuya Akasaki
    • Satoshi Shimada

    Original Article 24 March 2013 Pages: 521 - 529

    

19. Origin identification method by multiple trace elemental analysis of intermuscular bones in grilled eel products produced in Japan, China, and Taiwan

    • Jun Iguchi
    • Yumiko Yamashita
    • Michiaki Yamashita

    Original Article 02 April 2013 Pages: 531 - 536

    

20. Comparative study of proteins recovered from whole North Pacific krill Euphausia pacifica by acidic and alkaline treatment during isoelectric solubilization/precipitation

    • Le-Chang Sun
    • Kodai Kaneko
    • Kazufumi Osako

    Original Article 17 April 2013 Pages: 537 - 546

    

21. The market value of freshness: observations from the swordfish and blue shark longline fishery

    • Gakushi Ishimura
    • Megan Bailey

    Original Article 16 March 2013 Pages: 547 - 553