Selection of fish for integrated agriculture-aquaculture systems

Fishponds in Farming Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 21-24

  Komen, Hans ^a   Bovenhuis, Henk ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

GxE; Inbreeding; Reproduction; Tilapia

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959551014     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-596-3     Document Type: Chapter

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