Flexible adaptation of the seasonal krill maturity cycle in the laboratory

Journal of Plankton Research

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 821-826

  Brown, Matthew ^a,b,c   Kawaguchi, So ^b,c   King, Robert ^b   Virtue, Patti ^a   Nicol, Stephen ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^c ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Environmental conditions; Flexibility; Maturity cycle; Photoperiod; Physiology; Regression

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CRUSTACEAN; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; LABORATORY METHOD; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; LIGHT EFFECT; MATURATION; PHOTOPERIOD; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE; SEASONALITY;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA; EUPHAUSIACEA;

EID: 79953795062     PISSN: 01427873     EISSN: 14643774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbq123     Document Type: Article

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