Contact infection trials failed to reproduce the disease condition of mass mortality in cultured pearl oyster Pinctada fucata martensii

Fisheries Science

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 700-702

  Hirano, Mizuki ^a   Kanai, Kinya ^a   Yoshikoshi, Kazuma ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artificial infection; Cohabitation; Japanese pearl oyster; Mass mortality; Pinctada fucata martensii

Indexed keywords

OSTREIDAE; PINCTADA; PINCTADA FUCATA;

EID: 0036311396     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1444-2906.2002.00480.x     Document Type: Article

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