Temperature effects on growth, maturation, and lifespan of the california sea hare (Aplysia californica)

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 31-35

  Stommes, Dustin ^a   Fieber, Lynne A ^a   Beno, Christina ^a   Gerdes, Robert ^a   Capo, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APLYSIA; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GROWTH RATE; HATCHERY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LIFE CYCLE; LIFESPAN; LOW TEMPERATURE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; POSTNATAL GROWTH; REARING; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPAWNING; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; FEMALE; FOOD INDUSTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LONGEVITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; APLYSIA; APLYSIA CALIFORNICA;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; APLYSIA; FEMALE; FISHERIES; LONGEVITY; MALE; SEXUAL MATURATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 21244469487     PISSN: 10600558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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