User profiles for Martin Castonguay

Martin Castonguay

Research scientist, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Verified email at dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Cited by 6826

Role of the striatum, cerebellum, and frontal lobes in the learning of a visuomotor sequence

J Doyon, D Gaudreau, R Laforce Jr, M Castonguay… - Brain and …, 1997 - Elsevier
This study was designed to examine the role of the striatum, cerebellum, and frontal lobes in
the implicit learning of a visuomotor sequence. The performance of patients with idiopathic …

Oceanic Spawning Migration of the European Eel (Anguilla anguilla)

…, MM Hansen, D Righton, P Gargan, M Castonguay… - Science, 2009 - science.org
European eels (Anguilla anguilla) undertake a ~5000-kilometer (km) spawning migration
from Europe to the Sargasso Sea. The larvae are transported back to European waters by the …

All roads lead to home: panmixia of European eel in the Sargasso Sea

…, MM Hansen, GE Maes, M Castonguay… - Molecular …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
European eels (Anguilla anguilla) spawn in the remote Sargasso Sea in partial sympatry with
American eels (Anguilla rostrata), and juveniles are transported more than 5000 km back …

Is there a role of ocean environment in American and European eel decline?

M Castonguay, PV Hodson, C Moriarty… - Fisheries …, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
American eel (Anguilla rostrata) recruitment has declined dramatically, in parallel with that
of European eel (Anguilla anguilla). Since both species spawn in the Sargasso Sea and …

Vertical distributions, diel and ontogenetic vertical migrations and net avoidance of leptocephali of Anguilla and other common species in the Sargasso Sea

M Castonguay, JD McCleave - Journal of Plankton Research, 1987 - academic.oup.com
Day- and night-time vertical distributions and their ontogenetic changes in Anguilla leptocephali
and other common species of leptocephali were determined and compared during five …

Copepod production drives recruitment in a marine fish

M Castonguay, S Plourde, D Robert… - Canadian Journal of …, 2008 - cdnsciencepub.com
Predicting fluctuations in recruitment of commercial marine fish remains the Holy Grail of
fisheries science. In previous studies, we identified statistical relationships linking Atlantic …

Freshwater eels: A symbol of the effects of global change

H Drouineau, C Durif, M Castonguay… - Fish and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Temperate eels Anguilla anguilla (European eel), A. rostrata (American eel) and A. japonica
(Japanese eel) are three catadromous species which have been declining since the 1970s/…

[PDF][PDF] RAD sequencing highlights polygenic discrimination of habitat ecotypes in the panmictic American eel

…, J Gaudin, E Normandeau, M Dionne, M Castonguay… - Current Biology, 2015 - cell.com
The two primary ways that species respond to heterogeneous environments is through local
adaptation and phenotypic plasticity. The American eel (Anguilla rostrata) presents a …

Early growth and recruitment in Atlantic mackerel Scomber scombrus: discriminating the effects of fast growth and selection for fast growth

D Robert, M Castonguay, L Fortier - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2007 - int-res.com
We tested the hypothesis that strong recruitment in Atlantic mackerel Scomber scombrus
occurs only in years when larval growth is fast and predation pressure—as measured by …

A century of research on the larval distributions of the Atlantic eels: a re‐examination of the data

…, S Bonhommeau, P Munk, M Castonguay… - Biological …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The spawning areas of the Atlantic freshwater eels were discovered about a century ago by
the Danish scientist Johannes Schmidt who after years of searching found newly hatched …