Induction of sex change within two full moons during breeding season and spawning in grouper

Aquaculture

Volumn 255, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 532-535

  Alam, Mohammad Ashraful ^a   Bhandari, Ramji Kumar ^b   Kobayashi, Yasuhisa ^a,d   Soyano, Kiyoshi ^c   Nakamura, Masaru ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artificial sex change; Breeding season; Full moon; Honeycomb grouper; Spawning

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; EGG PRODUCTION; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); HATCHING; HONEYBEE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; SEX REVERSAL; SPAWNING; SPERMATOPHORE;

EPINEPHELUS MERRA;

EID: 33646889344     PISSN: 00448486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2006.01.008     Document Type: Article

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