Trophic transfer of microplastics from mysids to fish greatly exceeds direct ingestion from the water column

T Hasegawa, M Nakaoka - Environmental Pollution, 2021 - Elsevier
Predators ingest microplastics directly from the environment and indirectly via trophic
transfer, yet studies have not investigated the contribution of each pathway to microplastic …

DNA metabarcoding focused on difficult‐to‐culture protists: An effective approach to clarify biological interactions

Y Nakamura, H Itagaki, A Tuji… - Environmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
DNA metabarcoding on a single organism is a promising approach to clarify the biological
interactions (eg, predator–prey relationships and symbiosis, including parasitism) of difficult …

A review of the order mysida in marine ecosystems: what we know what is yet to be known

AF Oliveira, SC Marques, JL Pereira… - Marine Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Mysids have a high ecological importance, particularly by their role in marine food chains as
a link between the benthic and pelagic realms. Here we describe the relevant taxonomy …

Two waves of photosymbiosis acquisition in extant planktonic foraminifera explained by ecological incumbency

H Takagi, Y Nakamura, C Schmidt, M Kucera… - The ISME …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
Photosymbiosis, a mode of mixotrophy by algal endosymbiosis, provides key advantages to
pelagic life in oligotrophic oceans. Despite its ecological importance, mechanisms …

DNA metabarcoding focusing on the plankton community: an effective approach to reconstruct the paleo-environment

Y Nakamura, E Ogiso-Tanaka, K Seto, T Ando… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract DNA metabarcoding (DNA-MB) targeting the whole plankton community is a
promising approach in studies of sediment samples from water bodies, but its effectiveness …

Method choice affects estimates of diet and niche breadth for small stream fish

A Kuhrt, J Musetta-Lambert, M Power, M Rautio, J Culp - Hydrobiologia, 2024 - Springer
The diet of fish from Arctic tundra streams was analyzed to compare the efficacy of (1)
morphological gut content analysis,(2) DNA metabarcoding, and (3) stable isotope analysis …

Feeding ecology of three euphausiid species in the North Pacific Ocean inferred from 18S V9 metabarcoding and stable isotope analysis

F Zhou, J Hirai, K Hamasaki, S Horii… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Euphausiids are abundant micronekton and important links between higher and lower
trophic levels in marine ecosystems; however, their detailed diets cannot be fully understood …

Flexible herbivory of the euryhaline mysid Neomysis awatschensis in the microtidal Yura River estuary, central Japan

JO Omweri, KW Suzuki, S Houki… - Plankton and Benthos …, 2021 - jstage.jst.go.jp
The euryhaline mysid Neomysis awatschensis occurs widely in estuaries and brackish lakes
in Japan. Although N. awatschensis may serve as an essential energy channel to higher …

消化管内容物の走査型電子顕微鏡観察に基づく二枚貝浮遊幼生の食性解析

伯耆匠二 - 日本水産学会誌, 2021 - jstage.jst.go.jp
抄録 伊勢湾および三河湾で採集した二枚貝浮遊幼生の消化管内の珪藻組成を,
走査型電子顕微鏡観察に基づいて定量的に解析した. 消化管内に認められた 11 属の珪藻のうち …

天然海域における着底期以降のアサリの食性

尾崎真奈, オザキマナ - mie-u.repo.nii.ac.jp
近年, 沿岸域の貧栄養化に伴う微細藻類の減少や組成の変化が, アサリの資源量の長期
的な減少の一因と見做されており, 本種の餌料環境の評価が重要な課題と位置付けられる …