From Sneaker to Parental Male: Change of Reproductive Traits in the Black Goby, Gobius niger (Teleostei, Gobiidae)

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Comparative Experimental Biology

Volumn 301, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 177-185

  Immler, Simone ^a,c   Mazzoldi, Carlotta ^b   Rasotto, Maria Berica ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALLOGOBIUS ATRATUS; GOBIIDAE; GOBIUS; GOBIUS NIGER; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 1042268242     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.a.20019     Document Type: Article

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