Involvement of brain-pituitary-gonadal axis on regulation of the reproductive cycle in female chub mackerel

Sexual Plasticity and Gametogenesis in Fishes

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 251-273

  Matsuyama, Michiya ^a   Selvaraj, Sethu ^a   Nyuji, Mitsuo ^a   Ohga, Hirofumi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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