Background pathology of the ovary in a laboratory population of zebrafish Danio rerio

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 169-172

  Rossteuscher, Stefanie ^a   Schmidt Posthaus, Heike ^a   Schäfers, Christoph ^b   Teigeler, Matthias ^b   Segner, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND APPLIED ECOLOGY IME   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gonad; Histopathology; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

CYPRINID; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LABORATORY METHOD; PATHOLOGY; TOXICOLOGY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; FISH DISEASE; MALE; OVARY; OVARY DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; FEMALE; FISH DISEASES; MALE; OVARIAN DISEASES; OVARY; ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO;

EID: 42449160243     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: 16161580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao01893     Document Type: Article

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