The corticosteroidogenic response of brown and rainbow trout alevins and fry to environmental stress during a ’critical period’

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 350-362

  Pottinger, T G ^a   Mosuwe, E ^b,c  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO   (South Africa)

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EID: 0028120279     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1994.1133     Document Type: Article

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