Otolith Strontium Isotope (87Sr/86Sr) Reveals Mixed Life Histories of Coilia brachygnathus in the Middle–Lower Yangtze River Floodplain
Zhongya Xuan, Yinping Wang, Sheng Wang, Yanping Yang, Chongrui Wang, Silei Liu, Kai Liu · 2025
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Zhongya Xuan and six co-authors trace the lives of a small Yangtze River fish in this 2025 study. The fish, Coilia brachygnathus, was long thought to stay in fresh water its whole life. The team read its history from ear stones, whose chemical makeup records the waters a fish has passed through. They compared those records with water samples from the river, its side streams, and its lakes.
Every fish showed shifts in its record, and two broad patterns emerged. Some fish stayed near home, while others moved among lakes, side streams, and the main river. A few caught far downstream carried the chemical mark of a big lake in their early core. The authors say the species mixes settled and wandering lives, and they urge care for the links between river and lakes.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Zhongya Xuan, Yinping Wang, Sheng Wang, Yanping Yang, Chongrui Wang, Silei Liu, Kai Liu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 43 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |