Gastric Evacuation Rates of Brook Trout

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 204-210

  Sweka, John A ^a,b   Cox, M Keith ^a   Hartman, Kyle J ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northeast Fishery Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGESTION; EXCRETION; SALMONID; TEMPERATURE;

COLEOPTERA; FONTINALIS; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 0842263989     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T02-064     Document Type: Article

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