Eugenol as an efficacious anaesthetic for tambaqui, Colossoma macropomum (Cuvier)

Aquaculture Research

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1056-1061

  Roubach, Rodrigo ^a   Gomes, Levy Carvalho ^b   Leão Fonseca, Flavio Augusto ^a   Val, Adalberto Luiz ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anaesthetic; Colossoma macropomum; Eugenol; Handling stress

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC; FISH CULTURE; HANDLING STRESS;

COLOSSOMA MACROPOMUM; COLOSSOMA MARCOPOMUM;

EID: 23844473748     PISSN: 1355557X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2109.2005.01319.x     Document Type: Article

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