Skin Color Control of the Red Sea Bream (Pagrus major)

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Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 27-32

  Lin, Mao Qun ^a   Ushio, Hideki ^a   Ohshima, Toshiaki ^a   Yamanaka, Hideaki ^a   Koizumi, Chiaki ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Erythrophore; Fish; Melanophore; Red sea bream

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011413337     PISSN: 00236438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/fstl.1997.0280     Document Type: Article

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