Food consumption and growth in maturing Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2019-2028

  Stead, Selina M ^a   Houlihan, Dominic F ^a   McLay, H Anne ^b   Johnstone, Ray ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; FOOD INTAKE; GROWTH; MATURATION; SEASONALITY; SEXUAL MATURATION; STEROID HORMONE;

FOOD CONSUMPTION; GROWTH; SALMONID;

SALMO SALAR; SALMONIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033304241     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/f99-136     Document Type: Article

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