The morphological plastic response to water current velocity varies with age and sexual state in juvenile Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1544-1554

  Páez, David James ^a   Hedger, Richard ^a   Bernatchez, Louis ^a   Dodson, Julian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Drag; Mature parr; Phenotypic plasticity; Shape; Swimming

Indexed keywords

SALMO SALAR; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 64549158529     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.01989.x     Document Type: Article

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