Discovery of an Earliest-Stage “Mystery Circle” and Development of the Structure Constructed by Pufferfish, Torquigener albomaculosus (Pisces: Tetraodontidae)
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results and Discussion
3. Materials and Methods
Supplementary Materials
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Day | Date | VO | VI | Radius (mm) | Figure 1 |
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1 | 7 June | ne | ne | - | A,B |
2 | 8 June | 24 | 22 | 603 | C,D |
3 | 9 June | u | u | - | E |
4 | 10 June | 28 | 24 | 607 | F |
5 | 11 June | 28 | 28 | - | - |
6 | 12 June | 28 | 28 | 831 | G |
7 | 13 June | 29 | 29 | - | - |
8 | 14 June | 29 | 29 | - | - |
9 | 15 June | 29 | 29 | 918 | H |
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Kawase, H.; Mizuuchi, R.; Shin, H.; Kitajima, Y.; Hosoda, K.; Shimizu, M.; Iwai, D.; Kondo, S. Discovery of an Earliest-Stage “Mystery Circle” and Development of the Structure Constructed by Pufferfish, Torquigener albomaculosus (Pisces: Tetraodontidae). Fishes 2017, 2, 14. https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes2030014
Kawase H, Mizuuchi R, Shin H, Kitajima Y, Hosoda K, Shimizu M, Iwai D, Kondo S. Discovery of an Earliest-Stage “Mystery Circle” and Development of the Structure Constructed by Pufferfish, Torquigener albomaculosus (Pisces: Tetraodontidae). Fishes. 2017; 2(3):14. https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes2030014
Chicago/Turabian StyleKawase, Hiroshi, Ryo Mizuuchi, Hirofumi Shin, Yuki Kitajima, Koh Hosoda, Masahiro Shimizu, Daisuke Iwai, and Shigeru Kondo. 2017. "Discovery of an Earliest-Stage “Mystery Circle” and Development of the Structure Constructed by Pufferfish, Torquigener albomaculosus (Pisces: Tetraodontidae)" Fishes 2, no. 3: 14. https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes2030014