Freshwater sculpins: Phylogenetics to ecology

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 136, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1736-1741

  Adams, Susan B ^a   Schmetterling, David A ^b  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b WILDLIFE AND PARKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; PERCIFORM; PHYLOGENETICS; REPRODUCTION; RESEARCH WORK; SALMONID; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

COTTIDAE; COTTUS; PISCES; SALMONIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 38349063424     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T07-023.1     Document Type: Article

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