Environmental physiology of the mangrove rivulus, kryptolebias marmoratus, a cutaneously breathing fish that survives for weeks out of water

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 792-800

  Wright, Patricia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BREATHING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; ENVIRONMENT; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; HERMAPHRODITIC SPECIES; PHYSIOLOGY; SELF FERTILIZATION;

ANIMALS; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; ENVIRONMENT; HERMAPHRODITIC ORGANISMS; RESPIRATION; SELF-FERTILIZATION; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

KRYPTOLEBIAS MARMORATUS;

EID: 84869989993     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/ics091     Document Type: Conference Paper

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