Biochemical composition of embryonic blue crabs Callinectes sapidus Rathbun 1896 (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Gulf of Mexico

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 311-324

  Jacobs, Janet R ^a   Biesiot, Patricia M ^a   Perry, Harriet M ^b   Trigg, Christine ^b  

^a University of Southern Mississippi   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION;

CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0142039181     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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