A molecular genetic evaluation of the taxonomy of eels of the genus Anguilla (Pisces: Anguilliformes)

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 675-690

  Watanabe, Shun ^a   Aoyama, Jun ^a   Nishida, Mutsumi ^a   Tsukamoto, Katsumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EEL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY;

ANGUILLA (FISH); ANGUILLIFORMES; PISCES;

EID: 19944387907     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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