Gonadal state of wild amphioxus populations and spawning success in captive conditions during the breeding period in Japan

Zoological Science

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 889-895

  Kubokawa, Kaoru ^a   Mizuta, Takanobu ^a   Morisawa, Masaaki ^a   Azuma, Nobuyuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amphioxus; Gonad; Lancelet; Reproduction; Spawning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FERTILITY; GONAD; HISTOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE CHORDATA; JAPAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SEA; SEX RATIO; SWIMMING;

ANIMALS; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; FERTILITY; GONADS; JAPAN; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEX RATIO; SWIMMING;

ANIMALIA; BRANCHIOSTOMA; BRANCHIOSTOMA BELCHERI; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; CHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0141707952     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.20.889     Document Type: Article

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