1. The glycerinated body wall of the sea cucumber as a suitable preparation for electron microscopic and physiological studies of ‘catch mechanism’

   • Sukumar Chandra Noskor
   • Kohzoh Ohtsu
   • Akira Matsuno

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1133 - 1139

2. The changes in proximate compositions and glycogen contents in the dorsal ordinary muscles of the full-cycle cultured Pacific bluefin tuna Thunnus orientalis occurring with growth

   • Yoshi -Nori Nakamura
   • Masashi Ando
   • Yasuyuki Tsukamasa

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1140 - 1146

3. Effects of entrance design on catch efficiency of arabesque greenling traps: a field experiment in Matsumae, Hokkaido

   • Yong Li
   • Katsutaro Yamamoto
   • Hiroyuki Yoshino

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1147 - 1152

4. Spatial and temporal migration modeling for stock of Pacific saury Cololabis saira (Brevoort), incorporating effect of sea surface temperature

   • Kazuyoshi Watanabe
   • Eiji Tanaka
   • Toshihide Kitakado

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1153 - 1165

5. The effect of water temperature on habitat use of young Pacific bluefin tuna Thunnus orientalis in the East China Sea

   • Takashi Kitagawa
   • Aida Sartimbul
   • Akira Nitta

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1166 - 1176

6. Ontogenetic changes of learning capability under reward conditioning in striped knifejaw Oplegnathus fasciatus juveniles

   • Hirona Makino
   • Reiji Masuda
   • Masaru Tanaka

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1177 - 1182

7. Common pearl oysters in China, Japan, and Australia are conspecific: evidence from ITS sequences and AFLP

   • Da Hui Yu
   • Xiaoping Jia
   • Ka Hou Chu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1183 - 1190

8. Efficacy of taurine supplementation for preventing green liver syndrome and improving growth performance in yearling red sea bream Pagrus major fed low-fishmeal diet

   • Shusaku Takagi
   • Hisashi Murata
   • Masaharu Ukawa

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1191 - 1199

9. Phylogenetic analysis of noxious red tide flagellates Chattonella antiqua, C. marina, C. ovata, and C. verruculosa (Raphidophyceae) based on the rRNA gene family

   • Shoko Hosoi-Tanabe
   • Isamu Otake
   • Yoshihiko Sako

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1200 - 1208

10. Predation by scavenging amphipods to injured hatchery-raised juvenile Japanese flounder Paralichthys olivaceus under laboratory conditions

    • Keiichiro Ide
    • Kazutaka Takahashi
    • Michio Omori

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1209 - 1214

11. Reproductive biology of whitespotted bamboo shark Chiloscyllium plagiosum in northern waters off Taiwan

    • Wei -Ke Chen
    • Kwang-Ming Liu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1215 - 1224

12. Ontogeny of anti-predator behavior in hatchery-reared jack mackerel Trachurus japonicus larvae and juveniles: patchiness formation, swimming capability, and interaction with jellyfish

    • Reiji Masuda

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1225 - 1235

13. Daily age and food habits of Lateolabrax latus larvae and juveniles occurring in the innermost shallow waters of Uwajima Bay, Japan

    • Yasuhiro Yube
    • Tomoaki Iseki
    • Masaru Tanaka

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1236 - 1249

14. Growth and ontogenetic migration of greeneye Chlorophthalmus albatrossis in Tosa Bay, Pacific Coast of South-Western Japan

    • Hideo Sakaji
    • Hitoshi Honda
    • Kazuya Nashida

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1250 - 1255

15. Semilunar spawning periodicity in brackish damsel Pomacentrus taeniometopon

    • Ruth S Pisingan
    • Lilik Harnadi
    • Akihiro Takemura

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1256 - 1260

16. Thermally induced gelation of paramyosin from scallop adductor muscle

    • Naoko Fukuda
    • Michiko Fujiura
    • Nobuo Seki

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1261 - 1268

17. Changes of proximate composition and extractive components in narezushi, a fermented mackerel product, during processing

    • Kouji Itou
    • Shinsuke Kobayashi
    • Yoshiaki Akahane

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1269 - 1276

18. Culture of mantle epithelial cells expressing shell matrix proteins from scallop Patinopecten yessoensis

    • Mayumi Endoh
    • Yasushi Hasegawa

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1277 - 1285

19. Inhibitory effects of seaweeds on histamine release from rat basophile leukemia cells (RBL-2H3)

    • Yoshimasa Sugiura
    • Yoshirou Takeuchi
    • Hideomi Amano

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1286 - 1291

20. Angiotensin-converting enzyme I inhibitory activity of phlorotannins from Ecklonia stolonifera

    • Hyun Ah Jung
    • Sook Kyung Hyun
    • Jae Sue Choi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1292 - 1299

21. Purification and characterization of lysozyme from purple washington clam Saxidomus purpurata

    • Kouji Miyauchi
    • Masahiro Matsumiya
    • Atsushi Mochizuki

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1300 - 1305

22. Stabilization of myosin by ionic compounds as affected by F-actin

    • Kumiko Hayashi
    • Kunihiko Konno

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1306 - 1312

23. Fishmeal replacement by alfalfa protein concentrate in sharp snout sea bream Diplodus puntazzo

    • Stavros Chatzifotis
    • Angela G Esteban
    • Pascal Divanach

    Short Paper Pages: 1313 - 1315

24. Basic liver-type fatty acid binding protein in rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss: sequence and gene expression in tissue

    • Soonhag Kim

    Short Paper Pages: 1316 - 1318

25. Tandem repeat sequence segments in control region of bronze featherback Notopterus notopterus mitochondrial DNA

    • Akira P Takagi
    • Satoshi Ishikawa
    • Hisashi Kurokura

    Short Paper Pages: 1319 - 1321

26. Properties of soluble elastin peptide from bulbus arteriosus in fish species

    • Misako Nakaba
    • Kohichi Ogawa
    • Masahiko Kunimoto

    Short Paper Pages: 1322 - 1324