Responses to handling and confinement stressors in juvenile great sturgeon Huso huso

Journal of Fish Biology

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 784-796

  Falahatkar, B ^a   Poursaeid, S ^a   Shakoorian, M ^b   Barton, B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUILAN   (Iran)

^b INTERNATIONAL STURGEON RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^c Serranus Consulting Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acute; Chronic; Density; Huso huso; Physiology; Stress

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; LACTIC ACID;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CROWDING; FISH; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; MOTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CROWDING; FISHES; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); HYDROCORTISONE; LACTIC ACID; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

HUSO HUSO; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 70349332986     PISSN: 00221112     EISSN: 10958649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2009.02334.x     Document Type: Article

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