Waiting for a sign: Extended incubation postpones larval stage in the beach spawning California Grunion Leuresthes tenuis (Ayres)

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 63-70

  Martin, Karen L M ^a,b   Moravek, Cassadie L ^a   Walker, Alice J ^a  

^a PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherinopsidae; Beach; Delayed hatching; Development; Environmentally cued hatching; Larva; Teleost

Indexed keywords

BEACH; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EGG; EMBRYO; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GROWTH RATE; HATCHING; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LARVA; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SEAWATER; SPAWNING; SURVIVAL; TELEOST; TIDAL CYCLE;

ATHERINOPSIDAE; LEURESTHES TENUIS; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 79955701319     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-010-9760-4     Document Type: Article

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