Procedures for efficiently producing high-quality fecundity data on a small budget

Fisheries Research

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 84-89

  Klibansky, Nikolai ^a   Juanes, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Auto diametric method; Cod; Digital image analysis; Fecundity; Oocyte size

Indexed keywords

GADUS MORHUA;

EID: 36549076505     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2007.09.005     Document Type: Article

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