Swimming stimulates oocyte development in European eel

Aquaculture

Volumn 270, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 321-332

  Palstra, Arjan ^a   Curiel, Danilo ^a   Fekkes, Madelon ^a   de Bakker, Merijn ^a   Székely, Csaba ^b   van Ginneken, Vincent ^a   van den Thillart, Guido ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Anguilla anguilla Linnaeus; Lipid mobilisation; Maturation; Reproductive migration; Silvering; Vitellogenesis

Indexed keywords

EEL; GROWTH RATE; MORPHOMETRY; SEXUAL MATURITY; SWIMMING;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUNGARY; LAKE BALATON;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA;

EID: 34547691222     PISSN: 00448486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2007.04.015     Document Type: Article

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