Whether European eel leptocephali use the Earth’s magnetic field to guide their migration remains an open question

• Published in: Current Biology
• Main Authors: Durif, Caroline M. F., Bonhommeau, Sylvain, Briand, Cedric, Browman, Howard I., Castonguay, Martin, Daverat, Francoise, Dekker, Willem, Diaz, Estibaliz, Hanel, Reinhold, Miller, Michael J., Moore, Andy, Paris, Claire B., Skiftesvik, Anne Berit, Westerberg, Hakan, Wickstrom, Hakan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cell Press 2017
• Subjects: Severn River; Anguilla anguilla
• Online Access: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00403/51467/52037.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.08.045; https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00403/51467/

European eels (Anguilla anguilla) migrate between the southwestern Sargasso Sea and the European and Mediterranean coasts. In a recent paper in Current Biology, Naisbett-Jones et al. [1] claim to “provide the first evidence that they [eels] derive positional information from the Earth’s magnetic fie...