Gonadal alterations in male whitefish Coregonus fatioi: No evidence for genetic damage reducing viability in early life stages

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 119-125

  Urbach, Davnah ^a,b,e   Britschgi, Adrian ^b   Jacob, Alain ^a,b,c   Bittner, David ^b   Bernet, Daniel ^b   Wahli, Thomas ^b   Yoccoz, Nigel G ^d   Wedekind, Claus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM DER BURGERGEMEINDE BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^e INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Embryo survival; Genetic quality; Gonadal alterations; Lake Thun; Whitefish

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

EMBRYO; GENETIC VARIATION; MORPHOLOGY; PERSISTENCE; PHENOTYPE; SALMONID; SURVIVAL; VIABILITY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FISH DISEASE; GENETICS; GONAD; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; PATHOLOGY; SALMONID; SWITZERLAND;

ANIMALS; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FISH DISEASES; FRESH WATER; GONADS; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; SALMONIDAE; SWITZERLAND;

BERN [SWITZERLAND]; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND; THUNERSEE;

COREGONUS FATIOI;

EID: 52649173401     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: 16161580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao01952     Document Type: Article

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