Gonadal sex differentiation in the Malabar grouper, Epinephelus malabaricus

Aquaculture

Volumn 293, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 286-289

  Murata, Ryosuke ^a   Karimata, Hirofumi ^b   Ashraful Alam, Mohammad ^a   Nakamura, Masaru ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b Okinawa Prefectural Fisheries and Ocean Research Center   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Germ cells; Grouper; Sex control; Sex differentiation

Indexed keywords

FISH CULTURE; FLATFISH; GERM CELL; HATCHING; HISTOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY;

EPINEPHELINAE; EPINEPHELUS MALABARICUS; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 67449155886     PISSN: 00448486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2009.04.031     Document Type: Article

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