Isolation and culture of the marine rotifer, Colurella dicentra (Gosse, 1887), from a Mississippi Gulf Coast estuary

Aquaculture Research

Volumn 37, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 1400-1405

  Chigbu, Paulinus ^a,b   Suchar, Vasile A ^a  

^a Jackson State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE   (United States)

Author keywords

Colurella dicentra; Culture; Growth rate; Mississippi; Salinity

Indexed keywords

FISH CULTURE; GROWTH RATE; INVERTEBRATE; ISOLATION EFFECT; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; POPULATION GROWTH; SALINITY;

MISSISSIPPI BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BRACHIONUS; BRACHIONUS PLICATILIS; BRACHIONUS ROTUNDIFORMIS; COLURELLA; DICENTRA; ENCENTRUM; NANNOCHLOROPSIS OCULATA; ROTIFERA; SYNCHAETA CECILIA;

EID: 33749571374     PISSN: 1355557X     EISSN: 13652109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2109.2006.01572.x     Document Type: Article

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