The effect of growing level and growing method on winter mortality, Mikrocytos roughleyi, in diploid and triploid Sydney rock oysters, Saccostrea glomerata

Aquaculture

Volumn 185, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 197-205

  Smith, Ian R ^a   Nell, John A ^a   Adlard, Robert ^b  

^a NSW Fisheries   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Culture; Mikrocytos; Mortality; Oysters; Parasite; Triploidy

Indexed keywords

DEPTH; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MORTALITY; OYSTER CULTURE;

AUSTRALIA;

BIVALVIA; MIKROCYTOS ROUGHLEYI; SACCOSTREA GLOMERATA;

EID: 0034713398     PISSN: 00448486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0044-8486(99)00350-6     Document Type: Article

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