Sexual maturation in sea- and freshwater phases of Pacific salmonids and investigations of reproductive hormone involvement in osmoregulatory adaptation
The changes in reproductive parameters and hormones, and blood sodium during the final weeks of sexual maturation in wild coastal salmon, chinook, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, and steelhead, O. mykiss, were documented for stocks spawning in two similar river systems on the west coast of Vancouver Islan...
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| Language: | English |
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2008
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/1132 |