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Saltatory ontogeny of fishes and sensitive early life stages for ecotoxicology tests.
Aquatic toxicology (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 15 Apr 2010
Belanger Scott E, Balon Eugene K, Rawlings Jane M
Abstract excerpt
Fish display a wide range of developmental ontogenies. These distinctions have taxonomic, evolutionary, and ecological importance in addition to practical implications on the use of fish in aquatic toxicity tests. With respect to animal welfare, vertebrates are afforded protected or non-protected status in the European Union based upon whether they feed endogenously off the yolk or exogenously by procurement and...
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