Morphology and ecology of Pacific sturgeons

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 79, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 369-381

  Artyukhin, Evgenii N ^a   Vecsei, Paul ^b   Peterson, Douglas L ^b  

^a Central Laboratory of Fish Reproduction   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecology; Morphology; Pacific sturgeons; Phylogenetic analysis; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; EVOLUTION; FISH; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; TAXONOMY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC RIM;

ACIPENSER; ACIPENSER DABRYANUS; ACIPENSER MEDIROSTRIS; ACIPENSER MIKADOI; ACIPENSER SCHRENCKII; ACIPENSER SINENSIS; ACIPENSER TRANSMONTANUS; ACIPENSERIDAE;

EID: 34547762195     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-006-9157-6     Document Type: Article

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