Reproductive Complexity in a Long-Lived Deepwater Fish, the Blackgill Rockfish

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 383-399

  Lefebvre, Lyndsey S ^a,b   Field, John C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; DEEP-SEA FISHERY; FISH; GENETIC VARIATION; HABITAT QUALITY; HISTOLOGY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MATURATION; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

PISCES; SEBASTES MELANOSTOMUS;

EID: 84926383882     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00028487.2014.1001039     Document Type: Article

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