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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Main Authors: Claudia Angelica da Silva Brandão, Maria de Fátima Moraes Valentim, Érica Pellegrini Caramaschi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná (Tecpar) 2003-06-01
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