Validation of an Ultrasound-Guided Technique to Establish a Liver-to-Coelom Ratio and a Comparative Analysis of the Ratios Among Acclimated and Recently Wild-Caught Southern Stingrays, Dasyatis Americana

Zoo Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 104-111

  Grant, Krystan R ^a   Campbell, Terry W ^a   Silver, Tawni I ^b   Olea Popelka, Francisco J ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Elasmobranch; Lipid; Liver; Stingray; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASMOBRANCH; HISTOLOGY; LIVER; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY; WILD ANIMAL; ZOO ANIMAL;

ANATOMY, COMPARATIVE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANIMALS, ZOO; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; ELASMOBRANCHII; LIVER; ORGAN SIZE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

DASYATIDAE; DASYATIS AMERICANA;

EID: 84873718715     PISSN: 07333188     EISSN: 10982361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/zoo.21014     Document Type: Article

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