Relationship between male size and newborn size in the seaweed pipefish, Syngnathus schlegeli

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 319-325

  Watanabe, Satoshi ^a   Watanabe, Yoshiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brood pouch; Brooding density; Embryo; Newborn number; Newborn weight; Nourishment

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; EMBRYO; FISH; MALE; SEAWEED;

ALGAE; SYNGNATHUS; SYNGNATHUS SCHLEGELI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036828485     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020510422509     Document Type: Article

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