The scaling and potential importance of cutaneous and branchial surfaces in respiratory gas exchange in larval and juvenile walleye Stizostedion vitreum

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 200, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 2459-2468

  Rombough, Peter J ^a   Moroz, Brenda M ^a  

^a BRANDON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fish; Gill; Ionoregulation; Larva; Oxygen consumption; Respiratory gas exchange; Scaling; Skin; Stizostedion vitreum; Walleye

Indexed keywords

STIZOSTEDION VITREUM;

EID: 0030809677     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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