Overlapping sensitivities of brook trout and brown trout to putative hormonal pheromones

Journal of Fish Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1027-1029

  Essington, T E ^a,b   Sorensen, P W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Hybridization; Pheromone; Reproduction; Salmo trutta; Salvelinus fontinalis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002791178     PISSN: 00221112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.1996.tb01499.x     Document Type: Article

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