Fishery-induced selection for slow somatic growth in European eel

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Bevacqua, Daniele ^a,b   Capoccioni, Fabrizio ^c   Melià, Paco ^d   Vincenzi, Simone ^e   Pujolar, José M ^f   de Leo, Giulio A ^a,g   Ciccotti, Eleonora ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b Domaine Saint Paul   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^d POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGUILLA (FISH); ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EEL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FISHERY; FISHING; GROWTH RATE; MORTALITY; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; THEORETICAL STUDY; ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; FOOD INDUSTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA; PISCES;

ANGUILLA; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; FISHERIES; MALE; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84861309964     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037622     Document Type: Article

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