Ovary maturation stages and oocyte features in three species of the neotropical fish Hemiodus (Müller, 1842)
Macro- and microscopic ovarian features of Hemiodus microlepis, H. ternetzi and H. unimaculatus were analyzed. Based on these features we proposed an ovarian maturation scale. The nine stages of the preliminary macroscopic fieldwork scale were reduced to five after microscopic analysis of ovaries. T...
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Language: | English |
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Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná (Tecpar)
2003-06-01
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Series: | Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132003000300015 |