The digestive protease, chymotrypsin, as an indicator of nutritional condition in larval red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus)

Marine Biology

Volumn 142, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1159-1167

  Applebaum, S L ^a   Holt, G J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME ACTIVITY; ICHTHYOPLANKTON; METHODOLOGY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS;

BRACHIONUS; BRACHIONUS PLICATILIS; INVERTEBRATA; ROTIFERA; SCIAENOPS OCELLATUS;

EID: 0037560336     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-003-1041-8     Document Type: Article

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