Reversed Asymmetry in Laboratory-Reared Summer Flounder
- 1 April 1993
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Progressive Fish-Culturist
- Vol. 55 (2) , 106-108
- https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8640(1993)055<0106:railrs>2.3.co;2
Abstract
Eggs from laboratory-spawned summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus) were hatched, and larvae were reared through metamorphosis in captivity. The incidence of juveniles showing a reversed asymmetry under these conditions was high – 4.4% of fish that completed metamorphosis – given that only two cases of reversal in this species have been reported previously. The importance of directionality of ocular asymmetry in flatfishes is addressed.Keywords
This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: