Pattern of oocyte development and batch fecundity in the Mediterranean sardine

Fisheries Research

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 13-23

  Ganias, Konstantinos ^a   Somarakis, Stylianos ^b,c   Machias, Athanassios ^c   Theodorou, Athanasios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Batch fecundity; Group synchronous; Mediterranean sardine; Oocyte development; Sardina pilchardus sardina

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL SPECIES; EGG DEVELOPMENT; FECUNDITY; FISH;

HIATUS; SARDINA; SARDINA PILCHARDUS;

EID: 1042301914     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2003.08.008     Document Type: Article

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