Effects of the sea louse Lepeophtheirus salmonis on temporal changes in cortisol, sex steroids, growth and reproductive investment in Arctic charr Salvelinus alpinus

Journal of Fish Biology

Volumn 76, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2318-2341

  Tveiten, H ^a   Bjorn P A ^a   Johnsen, H K ^b   Finstad, B ^c   McKinley, R S ^d  

^a NOFIMA   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Condition; Ectoparasite; Egg production; Growth; Stress

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; COPEPOD; FEMALE; FISH DISEASE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; TIME; TROUT;

ANIMALS; COPEPODA; FEMALE; FISH DISEASES; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; REPRODUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TROUT;

LEPEOPHTHEIRUS SALMONIS; PHTHIRAPTERA; SALVELINUS ALPINUS; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 77954737412     PISSN: 00221112     EISSN: 10958649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2010.02636.x     Document Type: Article

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