A monogamous pipefish has the same type of ovary as observed in monogamous seahorses

Biology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 362-365

  Sogabe, Atsushi ^a   Matsumoto, Koji ^b   Ohashi, Mizuki ^c   Watanabe, Aki ^c   Takata, Hiromi ^c   Murakami, Yasunori ^c   Omori, Koji ^a   Yanagisawa, Yasunobu ^c  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Ehime Prefectural Nagahama Senior High School   (Japan)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mating pattern; Monogamy; Ovarian structure; Pipefish; Syngnathidae

Indexed keywords

EGG PRODUCTION; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; MONOGAMY; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; TELEOST;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FISH; HISTOLOGY; MATING TYPE; MONOGAMY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY; PIPEFISH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAHORSE; SPAWNING;

CORYTHOICHTHYS HAEMATOPTERUS; HIPPOCAMPINAE; HIPPOCAMPUS (FISH); SYNGNATHIDAE; SYNGNATHUS; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 46949085743     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0157     Document Type: Article

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