Morphological study on the gills of two species of fresh water fishes: Oreochromis niloticus and Clarias gariepinus

Annals of Anatomy

Volumn 186, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 295-304

  Zayed, Ahmed Elzuhry ^a   Mohamed, Salma A ^b  

^a Assiut University   (Egypt)

^b SOUTH VALLEY UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Fish; Gills; LM and SEM

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATFISH; CELL ELONGATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL SHAPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLARIAS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; EPITHELIUM; FISH; GEOMETRY; GILL; HEAD; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; MUCOSA; MUCOSA CELL; NONHUMAN; OREOCHROMIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TASTE BUD;

ANIMALIA; CATFISH; CLARIAS; CLARIAS GARIEPINUS; OREOCHROMIS; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; PISCES;

EID: 4544299231     PISSN: 09409602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0940-9602(04)80044-X     Document Type: Article

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