Seasonal development of gonads of the hagfish, Eptatretus burgeri, correlated with their seasonal migration

Zoological Science

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 225-232

  Nozaki, Masumi ^a,b   Ichikawa, Tomoyuki ^a   Tsuneki, Kazuhiko ^a,c   Kobayashi, Hideshi ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPTATRETUS BURGERI; HAGFISH;

EID: 0034341704     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.17.225     Document Type: Article

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