Assessing maturity, fecundity and hermaphroditism in blue cod Parapercis colias

Aquatic Biology

关键词: Maturity assessment;    Length at maturity;    Fecundity;    Parapercis colias;    Sex change;    Histology;   

DOI  :  10.3354/ab00679

学科分类：生物科学（综合）

来源: Inter-Research

【 摘 要 】

ABSTRACT: Macroscopic assessments of maturity from whole fish gonads are well established and routinely used in fisheries research and are important in the estimation of size-at-maturity and the impacts of size-selective fishing. Histological assessment of maturity is more accurate, but much slower, more expensive, and so less frequently conducted. We made a comparison between macroscopic and histological maturity classifications for a diandric protogynous hermaphrodite, blue cod

【 授权许可】

CC BY