Validation and application of lipofuscin-based age determination for Chesapeake Bay blue crabs Callinectes sapidus

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 137, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1637-1649

  Puckett, Brandon J ^a   Secor, David H ^b   Ju, Se Jong ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^c Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGE DETERMINATION; BIOACCUMULATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRAB; EGG PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GROWTH RESPONSE; JUVENILE; LIPID; METABOLISM; MODEL VALIDATION; POPULATION MODELING; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SETTLING BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 58149232315     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T07-278.1     Document Type: Article

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