Activity of lactate dehydrogenase but not its concentration of messenger RNA increases with body size in barred sand bass, Paralabrax nebulifer (Teleostei)

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 155-158

  Yang, Tzung Horng ^a,b   Somero, George N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARALABRAX NEBULIFER;

EID: 0030266288     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1542918     Document Type: Article

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