Daily activity pattern of the marine shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (Boone 1931) juveniles under laboratory conditions

Aquaculture Research

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1001-1006

  Pontes, Cibele Soares ^a   Arruda, Maria De Fatima ^a   De Lara Menezes, Alexandre Augusto ^a   De Lima, Patrícia Pereira ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Activity rhythms; Applied ethology; Behaviour; Litopenaeus; Shrimp

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE METHOD; BEHAVIOR BY MOVEMENT, ACTIVITY OR RESPONSE TO STIMULI; FEEDING; SHRIMP CULTURE;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); LITOPENAEUS VANNAMEI;

EID: 33745842976     PISSN: 1355557X     EISSN: 13652109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2109.2006.01519.x     Document Type: Article

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