Consecutive Spawnings of Chinese Amphioxus, Branchiostoma belcheri, in Captivity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Li, Guang ^a   Yang, Xi ^a   Shu, ZongHuang ^a   Chen, XiaoYing ^a   Wang, YiQuan ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRANCHIOSTOMA; BRANCHIOSTOMA BELCHERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GAMETE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPAWNING; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; MODELS, ANIMAL; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS;

ANIMALIA; BRANCHIOSTOMA BELCHERI; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84871191523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050838     Document Type: Article

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