Male internal fertilization and introsperm-like sperm of the seaweed pipefish (Syngnathus schlegeli)

Zoological Science

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 759-767

  Watanabe, Satoshi ^a   Hara, Masako ^a   Watanabe, Yoshiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; SYNGNATHUS SCHLEGELI;

EID: 0034337755     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.17.759     Document Type: Article

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