Evidence of temperature-dependent sex determination in the european sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.)

Journal of Experimental Zoology

Volumn 287, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 225-232

  Pavlidis, Michalis ^a   Koumoundouros, George ^a   Sterioti, Aspasia ^a   Somarakis, Stylianos ^a   Divanach, Pascal ^a   Kentouri, Maroudio ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BASS; BODY WEIGHT; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENDER AND SEX; LARVA; MALE; OOCYTE; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX RATIO; TEMPERATURE; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; BASS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; LARVA; MALE; OVARY; OVUM; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX RATIO; TEMPERATURE; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; DICENTRARCHUS LABRAX; SERRANIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034255757     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-010X(20000801)287:3<225::AID-JEZ4>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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