Why do rotifer populations present a typical sigmoid growth curve?

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 446-447, Issue , 2001, Pages 99-105

  Yoshinaga, Tatsuki ^a   Hagiwara, Atsushi ^b   Tsukamoto, Katsumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brachionus plicatilis; Population dynamics; Rotifera; Sigmoid growth curve

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; GROWTH KINETICS;

POPULATION DENSITIES;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 0035866746     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1017510220444     Document Type: Conference Paper

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