Continuous culture of two lancelets and production of the second filial generations in the laboratory

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Volumn 308, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 464-472

  Zhang, Qiu Jin ^a,b   Sun, Yi ^a   Zhong, Jing ^a   Li, Guang ^a   Lü, Xiao Mei ^c   Wang, Yi Quan ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUJIAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Fujian Institute of Oceanology   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CROSS BREEDING; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; FEMALE; GENETICS; GONAD; INVERTEBRATE CHORDATA; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; CROSSES, GENETIC; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; GONADS; MALE; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALIA; BRANCHIOSTOMA BELCHERI; BRANCHIOSTOMIDAE;

EID: 34547731849     PISSN: 15525007     EISSN: 15525015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.21172     Document Type: Article

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