The role of chemoreception in salmon-egg predation by coastrange Coitus aleuticus and slimy (C. cognatus) sculpins in Iliamna Lake, Alaska

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 406-413

  Dittman, Andrew H ^a,b,d   Brown, Gayle S ^a,c   Foote, Chris J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c Northwest Biological Science Center   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMORECEPTION; EGG PREDATION; FISH;

UNITED STATES;

COTTUS ALEUTICUS; COTTUS COGNATUS; ONCORHYNCHUS NERKA;

EID: 0031824367     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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