Temperature effects on sex differentiation of two South American atherinids, Odontesthes argentinensis and Patagonina hatcheri

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 143-154

  Strüssmann, Carlos A ^a   Calsina Cota, Josue C ^a   Phonlor, Germano ^b   Higuchi, Hiroyuki ^a   Takashima, Fumio ^a  

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

^b Rio Grande University   (Japan)

Author keywords

ESD; Fishes; Gonads; Histology; Pejerrey; Sex determination; TSD

Indexed keywords

ODONTESTHES ARGENTINENSIS; PATAGONINA HATCHERI;

HISTOLOGY; PATAGONIAN FRESHWATER PEJERREY; SEA PEJERREY; SEX DETERMINATION; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECTS;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0029828970     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf00005037     Document Type: Article

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