Effect of vitamin A on the skeletal morphogenesis of European sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax (Linnaeus, 1758)

Aquaculture Research

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 684-692

  Georga, Ioanna ^a   Glynatsi, Nomiki ^a   Baltzois, Athanasios ^a   Karamanos, Dimitrios ^a   Mazurais, David ^b   Darias, Maria J ^c   Cahu, Chantal L ^b   Zambonino Infante, Jose L ^b   Koumoundouros, Giorgos ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b Unite mixte INRA IFREMER Universite Bordeaux 1 UMR Nuage   (France)

^c IRTA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fish; Limb asymmetry; Phenotypic plasticity; Retinol

Indexed keywords

ABNORMALITY; ARTIFICIAL DIET; ASYMMETRY; LARVA; LIMB; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOMETRY; PERCIFORM; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SHAPE; SKELETON; VITAMIN;

DICENTRARCHUS LABRAX;

EID: 79954492375     PISSN: 1355557X     EISSN: 13652109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2109.2010.02676.x     Document Type: Article

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