Changes in skin colour and cortisol response of Australian snapper pagrus auratus (bloch & schneider, 1801) to different background colours

Aquaculture Research

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 542-550

  Doolan, Ben J ^a,b,c   Booth, Mark A ^b   Allan, Geoff L ^b   Jones, Paul L ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Aquafin Cooperative Research Centre Henley Beach   (Australia)

^c NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Astaxanthin; Background adaptation; Cortisol; Skin colour

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTIFICIAL DIET; BLOOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FISH CULTURE; HORMONE; PERCIFORM; PIGMENT; SKIN; STEROID;

CHRYSOPHRYS AURATUS;

EID: 62349137844     PISSN: 1355557X     EISSN: 13652109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2109.2008.02126.x     Document Type: Article

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