An Environmental Factor Stimulating Salinity Tolerance and Branchial Chloride Cells in a Euryhaline Teleost Poecilia reticulata

Fisheries Science

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 329-333

  Arai, Eishi ^a   Shikano, Takahito ^a   Fujio, Yoshihisa ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chloride cell; Euryhaline teleost; Guppy; Osmoregulation; Salinity tolerance; Seawater adaptation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345138401     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2331/fishsci.64.329     Document Type: Article

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