Digestive enzymes present in Pacific threadfin Polydactylus sexfilis (Bloch and Schneider 1801) and bluefin trevally Caranx melampygus (Cuvier 1833)

Aquaculture Research

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 781-787

  Divakaran, S ^a   Kim, B G ^a   Ostrowski, A C ^a  

^a OCEANIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; DIET; DIGESTION; ENZYME; FEEDING; FISH;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032805965     PISSN: 1355557X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2109.1999.00407.x     Document Type: Article

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