Juvenile growth and gonadal development in sex reversed female chinook salmon

In salmon farming, the culture of all female fish avoids the problem of precocial males and reduces the costs of production. In an all female monosex population, hormonal (17α-methyltestosterone, MT) masculinization can be used to obtain XX (chromosome) males for breeding purposes. Such treatment ha...

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Main Author: Gorkhali, Neena Amatya
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/14116