Estimating recent growth rates of Atlantic salmon smolts using RNA-DNA ratios from nonlethally sampled tissues

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1279-1284

  MacLean, Sharon A ^a   Caldarone, Elaine M ^a   St Onge Burns, Jeanne M ^b  

^a NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^b Integrated Statistics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BROMIDE; DNA; FLUOROMETRY; GROWTH RATE; LABORATORY METHOD; MUSCLE; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; RNA; SALMONID CULTURE; SMOLT;

SALMO SALAR;

EID: 57349126790     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T07-254.1     Document Type: Article

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