• Atlantic haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) larvae have a magnetic compass that guides their orientation 

      Cresci, Alessandro; Paris, Claire B.; Foretich, Matthew A.; Durif, Caroline; Shema, Steven; O'Brien, James E.; Vikebø, Frode Bendiksen; Skiftesvik, Anne Berit; Browman, Howard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Atlantic haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) is a commercially important species of gadoid fish. In the North Sea, their main spawning areas are located close to the northern continental slope. Eggs and larvae drift with ...
    • Glass eels (Anguilla anguilla) have a magnetic compass linked to the tidal cycle 

      Cresci, Alessandro; Paris, Claire B.; Durif, Caroline; Shema, Steven; Bjelland, Reidun Marie; Skiftesvik, Anne Berit; Browman, Howard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The European eel (Anguilla anguilla) has one of the longest migrations in the animal kingdom. It crosses the Atlantic Ocean twice during its life history, migrating between the spawning area in the Sargasso Sea and Europe, ...
    • Glass eels (Anguilla anguilla) imprint the magnetic direction of tidal currents from their juvenile estuaries 

      Cresci, Alessandro; Durif, Caroline; Paris, Claire B.; Shema, Steven D.; Skiftesvik, Anne Berit; Browman, Howard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The European eel (Anguilla anguilla) hatches in the Sargasso Sea and migrates to European and North African freshwater. As glass eels, they reach estuaries where they become pigmented. Glass eels use a tidal phase-dependent ...
    • The relationship between the moon cycle and the orientation of glass eels (Anguilla anguilla) at sea 

      Cresci, Alessandro; Durif, Caroline; Paris, Claire B.; Thompson, Cameron; Shema, Steven; Skiftesvik, Anne Berit; Browman, Howard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Links between the lunar cycle and the life cycle (migration patterns, locomotor activity, pulses in recruitment) of the European eel (Anguilla anguilla) are well documented. In this study, we hypothesized that the orientation ...