Reproductive Cycle and Size at First Maturity in Females of Brown Crab Callinectes Bellicosus (Stimpson 1859) in the Southwestern Gulf of California, Mexico
Abstract:The reproductive cycle of the crustacean family Portunidae on the coast of the Pacific is not well known. Therefore, the reproductive cycle and the size at first maturity of brown crab Callinectes bellicosus and its relationship with environmental factors in the El Colorado Lagoon, Ahome, Sinaloa has been determined. A total of 360 females were collected from March 2012 to March 2013. The gonads were fixed in 10% formalin, histological cuts were made by the paraffin inclusion method and the hematoxylin and eos… Show more
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