Endogenous swimming rhythms underlying the spawning migration of the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus: Ontogeny and variation with ambient tidal regime

Marine Biology

Volumn 157, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2415-2425

  Darnell, M Zachary ^a,b   Rittschof, Dan ^a   Forward, Richard Jr B ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRAB; ENDOGENOUS GROWTH; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; ONTOGENY; SPAWNING; SWIMMING; WATER COLUMN;

BEAUFORT; CANADA; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH CAROLINA; NOVA SCOTIA; SAINT ANDREWS BAY; SOUTH RIVER; UNITED STATES;

CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 77957996818     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-010-1506-5     Document Type: Article

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