A noninvasive technique for determining sex of live adult North American sturgeons

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 333-338

  Vecsei, Paul ^a   Litvak, Matthew K ^b   Noakes, David L G ^a   Rien, Tom ^c   Hochleithner, Martin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^c OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

^d Satzfischzucht ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

Acipenser; Conservation; Management; Morphology; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

FISH; MORPHOLOGY; SEX DETERMINATION;

NORTH AMERICA;

ACIPENSER; ACIPENSER BREVIROSTRUM; ACIPENSER MEDIROSTRIS; ACIPENSER OXYRINCHUS; ACIPENSER TRANSMONTANUS; ACIPENSERIDAE; OXYRHYNCHUS;

EID: 0348227844     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:EBFI.0000005732.98047.f3     Document Type: Article

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