Growth and hormonal changes associated with precocious sexual maturation in male chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (Walbaum))

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 208, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 239-250

  Heath, Daniel D ^a,e   Devlin, Robert H ^b   Heath, John W ^c   Sweeting, Ruston M ^d   McKeown, Brian A ^d   Iwama, George K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^c Yellow Island Aquaculture Ltd   (Canada)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Differential growth; Growth hormone; Jack salmon; Testosterone; Thyroid hormone

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; GROWTH; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; SALMON; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA;

EID: 0031038374     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0981(96)02689-5     Document Type: Article

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