Reproduction and Broodstock Management

Sparidae: Biology and Aquaculture of Gilthead Sea Bream and other Species

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 95-131

  Mylonas, Constantinos C ^a   Zohar, Yonathan ^b   Pankhurst, Ned ^c   Kagawa, Hirohiko ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Broodstock management; Controlled release delivery systems; Gametogenesis; GnRH; Hermaphroditism; Spawning induction; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886483744     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444392210.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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