Stocking density at early developmental stages affects growth and sex ratio in the European eel (Anguilla anguilla)

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 211, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 286-296

  Huertas, Mar ^b   Cerdà, Joan ^a  

^a IRTA   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA;

DENSITY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EEL; GROWTH RATE; MORTALITY; SEX RATIO; STOCKING DENSITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EEL; FEMALE; FOOD INDUSTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; MUSCLE; OVARY; SEX RATIO; TESTIS;

ANGUILLA; ANIMALS; DNA; FEMALE; FISHERIES; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALE; MUSCLES; OVARY; RNA; SEX RATIO; TESTIS;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA;

EID: 33846013968     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4134550     Document Type: Article

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