In the intertidal fish Bathygobius ramosus, larger males are more likely to reproduce than smaller ones due to male-male interactions and female preferences. Additionally, larger males are favored in foraging via intra-specific and inter-specific competition. Activity performance is also an important function associated with the ability to perform courtship, male-male interactions, and parental...

Gobies and their ectoparasitic monogenean flatworms are promising models for species diversification because of richness. Recent decades have seen the discovery several new Gyrodactylus (Monogenea: Gyrodactylidae) on European gobies, mostly in sand goby lineage especially eastern Mediterranean. However, fauna other gobies is much less understood. Therefore, we inspected five gobiid (34 specimen...

Aquatic surveys for fish in large water bodies (e.g., Laurentian Great Lakes of North America) often require a flexible approach using multiple methods, surveying different depths, and sampling across seasons, especially when the target species is elusive its natural habitat. The round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) an invasive, bottom-dwelling inhabiting rocky areas all five Lakes. While trawl ...

Neural responses to sensory stimuli often differ between sexes, vary seasonally, and can be regulated by endocrine activity, but the ecological and physiological mechanisms driving such patterns are not well understood. The current study examined how auditory function in the round goby (Neogobius melanostomus), a vocal teleost, co-varied with sex, reproductive condition and female plasma 17β-es...

Otolith microchemistry was applied to quantify migratory variation and the proportion of native Caribbean stream fishes that undergo full or partial marine migration. Strontium and barium water chemistry in four Puerto Rico, U.S.A., rivers was clearly related to a salinity gradient; however, variation in water barium, and thus fish otoliths, was also dependent on river basin. Strontium was the ...

Male-male conflict is common among animals, but questions remain as to when, how and by whom aggression should be initiated. Factors that affect agonistic strategies include residency, the value of the contested resource and the fighting ability of the two contestants. We quantified initiation of aggression in a fish, the desert goby, Chlamydogobius eremius, by exposing nest-holding males to a ...

The invasive round goby has a recognised role in transferring contaminants through foodwebs, but little work has been done on contaminant impacts on round gobies themselves. Here we present the first case study of contaminant biomarkers and subpopulation structure variation in round gobies, in relation to habitat contamination, within a Canadian Area of Concern, Hamilton Harbour. Copper and cad...

The source of human infection with intestinal flukes was surveyed in estuarine fishes, including the dotted gizzard shad, common sea bass, common blackish goby, redlip mullet, black sea bream, and oyster collected from Muan-gun, Jeollanam-do, Korea during August and September 2007. Collected fishes and oysters were artificially digested in pepsin-HCl solution and examined under a stereomicrosco...

The Laurentian Great Lakes are large dynamic aquatic ecosystems with a diversity of available habitats and associated fish communities. The increasing prevalence of invasive species has influenced habitat associations of native species and altered trophic relationships throughout the food webs. We sought to identify habitat and biotic relationships associated with common nearshore fish abundanc...

In order to attribute the behaviour of an animal to its personality it is important to study whether certain behavioural traits show up consistently across a variety of contexts. The aim of this study was to investigate whether breeding state males of the two-spotted goby, Gobiusculus flavescens, showed consistent degree of boldness when tested in four different behaviour assays. We also wanted...