Is the growth rate of fish set by digestive enzymes or metabolic capacity of the tissues? Insight from transgenic coho salmon

Aquaculture

Volumn 209, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 379-384

  Blier, Pierre U ^a   Lemieux, H ^a   Devlin, R H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coho salmon; Digestive enzymes; Metabolic enzymes; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; GROWTH RATE; METABOLISM; SALMONID CULTURE;

ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH;

EID: 0037189657     PISSN: 00448486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0044-8486(01)00807-9     Document Type: Article

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