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Japanese eel at the northern edge: glass eel migration into a river on Hokkaido, Japan

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Acknowledgements

We thank Manabu Kume for identification of the threespine stickleback, Genki Sahashi for providing an unpublished capture record, and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments.

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    Kentaro Morita

  2. Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan

    Mari Kuroki

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Morita, K., Kuroki, M. Japanese eel at the northern edge: glass eel migration into a river on Hokkaido, Japan. Ichthyol Res 68, 217–221 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-020-00771-5

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