Seawater Adaptability, Osmoregulatory Function, and Branchial Chloride Cells in the Strain Selected for High Salinity Tolerance of the Guppy Poecilia reticulata

Fisheries Science

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 240-244

  Shikano, Takahito ^a   Arai, Eishi ^a   Fujio, Yoshihisa ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artificial selection; Chloride cell; Euryhaline teleost; Guppy; Osmoregulation; Salinity tolerance; Seawater adaptation; Strain difference

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010313836     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2331/fishsci.64.240     Document Type: Article

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