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Michael J. Miller

Michael J. Miller

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Ecology and Evolution
Japan
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
52
Citations
7931
World Ranking
3518
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Michael J. Miller is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science, with significant interdisciplinary contributions to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The scientist's work extensively covers various subfields including nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, physiology, ecology, and aquatic science. The core topics addressed in their research include marine and fisheries research, fish ecology and management studies, reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species, aquaculture nutrition and growth, isotope analysis in ecology, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, and ichthyology and marine biology.

Michael J. Miller has published multiple papers in prominent scientific journals. Some recent publications include:

  • Important questions to progress science and sustainable management of anguillid eels, 2021, Fish and Fisheries
  • The mysterious feeding ecology of leptocephali: a unique strategy of consuming marine snow materials, 2020, Fisheries Science
  • The food source of Sargasso Sea leptocephali, 2020, Marine Biology
  • Several possible spawning sites of the Japanese eel determined from collections of their eggs and preleptocephali, 2021, Fisheries Science
  • Horizontal and vertical migration behavior of silver-phase Japanese eels in coastal, pelagic and spawning areas observed by pop-up satellite archival tags, 2021, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Their frequent collaborators include Katsumi Tsukamoto, Shun Watanabe, Takatoshi Higuchi, Mari Kuroki, and Éric Feunteun.

Key publication venues where Michael J. Miller has contributed include:

  • Fisheries Science
  • Progress In Oceanography
  • Marine Biology
  • Marine Ecology Progress Series
  • Fishes

Best Publications

  • Oceanic spawning ecology of freshwater eels in the western North Pacific

    Katsumi Tsukamoto;Seinen Chow;Tsuguo Otake;Hiroaki Kurogi

  • Oceanic changes in the Sargasso Sea and declines in recruitment of the European eel

    Kevin D. Friedland;Michael J. Miller;Brian Knights

  • Migration, speciation, and the evolution of diadromy in anguillid eels

    K Tsukamoto;J Aoyama;M J Miller

  • Ecology of Anguilliform Leptocephali: Remarkable Transparent Fish Larvae of the Ocean Surface Layer

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  • Deep-ocean origin of the freshwater eels

    Jun G. Inoue;Masaki Miya;Michael J. Miller;Tetsuya Sado

  • Short-distance spawning migration of tropical freshwater eels.

    Jun Aoyama;Sam Wouthuyzen;Michael J. Miller;Tadashi Inagaki

  • A low trophic position of Japanese eel larvae indicates feeding on marine snow.

    Michael J. Miller;Yoshito Chikaraishi;Nanako O. Ogawa;Yoshiaki Yamada

  • Inshore migration of the tropical eels Anguilla spp. recruiting to the Poigar River estuary on north Sulawesi Island

    Hagi Yulia Sugeha;Takaomi Arai;Michael J. Miller;Daniel Limbong

  • Evidence of different habitat use by New Zealand freshwater eels Anguilla australis and A. dieffenbachii, as revealed by otolith microchemistry

    Takaomi Arai;Aya Kotake;P. Mark Lokman;Michael J. Miller

  • A century of research on the larval distributions of the Atlantic eels: a re-examination of the data.

    Michael J. Miller;Sylvain Bonhommeau;Peter Munk;Martin Castonguay

  • Seamounts, new moon and eel spawning: The search for the spawning site of the Japanese eel

    Katsumi Tsukamoto;Tsuguo Otake;Noritaka Mochioka;Tae Won Lee

  • Positive buoyancy in eel leptocephali: an adaptation for life in the ocean surface layer

    Katsumi Tsukamoto;Yoshiaki Yamada;Akihiro Okamura;Toyoji Kaneko

  • Comparison of early life history between New Zealand temperate eels and Pacific tropical eels revealed by otolith microstructure and microchemistry

    Miho Marui;Takaomi Arai;Michael J. Miller;Donald J. Jellyman

  • Release of eDNA by different life history stages and during spawning activities of laboratory-reared Japanese eels for interpretation of oceanic survey data.

    Aya Takeuchi;Takuya Iijima;Wataru Kakuzen;Shun Watanabe

  • Species assemblages of leptocephali in the Subtropical Convergence Zone of the Sargasso Sea

    Michael J. Miller;James D. McCleave

  • Evaluation of the larval distribution and migration of the Japanese eel in the western North Pacific

    Akira Shinoda;Akira Shinoda;Jun Aoyama;Michael J. Miller;Tsuguo Otake

  • Important questions to progress science and sustainable management of anguillid eels

    David Righton;David Righton;Adam Piper;Kim Aarestrup;Elsa Amilhat

  • Did a “perfect storm” of oceanic changes and continental anthropogenic impacts cause northern hemisphere anguillid recruitment reductions?

    Michael J. Miller;Eric Feunteun;Katsumi Tsukamoto

  • Contrasting patterns of growth and migration of tropical anguillid leptocephali in the western Pacific and Indonesian Seas

    Mari Kuroki;Jun Aoyama;Michael J. Miller;Sam Wouthuyzen

  • Sympatric spawning of Anguilla marmorata and Anguilla japonica in the western North Pacific Ocean.

    M. Kuroki;J. Aoyama;M. J. Miller;T. Yoshinaga

  • Does fish larval dispersal differ between high and low latitudes

    Jeffrey M. Leis;Jeffrey M. Leis;Jennifer E. Caselle;Ian R. Bradbury;Ian R. Bradbury;Trond Kristiansen

  • Seasonal variation in the migratory history of the Japanese eel Anguilla japonica in Mikawa Bay, Japan

    Aya Kotake;Akihiro Okamura;Yoshiaki Yamada;Tomoko Utoh

  • Spawning time and place of the Japanese eel Anguilla japonica in the North Equatorial current of the western North Pacific Ocean

    Satoshi Ishikawa;Kunihiro Suzuki;Tadashi Inagaki;Shun Watanabe

Frequent Co-Authors

Katsumi Tsukamoto
Katsumi Tsukamoto University of Tokyo
Jun Aoyama
Jun Aoyama University of Tokyo
Takaomi Arai
Takaomi Arai Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Eric Feunteun
Eric Feunteun French National Museum of Natural History
Martin Castonguay
Martin Castonguay Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Izumi Washitani
Izumi Washitani Chuo University
Pierre Sasal
Pierre Sasal University of Perpignan
Kim Aarestrup
Kim Aarestrup Technical University of Denmark
Finn Økland
Finn Økland Swedish National Board of Fisheries
Giorgio Dall'Olmo
Giorgio Dall'Olmo Plymouth Marine Laboratory

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