The role of an estuary environment for regeneration of claws in the American lobster, Homarus americanus H. Milne Edwards, 1837 (Decapoda)

Crustaceana

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 415-433

  Moriyasu, Mikio ^a   Landsburg, Wade ^a   Wade, Elmer ^a   Maynard, Donald R ^a,b  

^a GULF FISHERIES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b Jacques Whitford Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTACEAN; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MOLT; REGENERATION;

BIDEFORD RIVER ESTUARY; CANADA; PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND;

ANIMALIA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA; HOMARUS AMERICANUS; INVERTEBRATA; LOBSTER;

EID: 0033150297     PISSN: 0011216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156854099503474     Document Type: Article

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