Hormone-induced multiple spawning of captive Nassau grouper broodstock

Progressive Fish-Culturist

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 65-69

  Head, William D ^a   Watanabe, Wade O ^a   Ellis, Simon C ^a   Ellis, Eileen P ^a  

^a Caribbean Marine Research Center   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

EPINEPHELUS STRIATUS;

EID: 0002280377     PISSN: 00330779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8640(1996)058<0065:HIMSOC>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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