JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH | VOLUME 11 | NUMBER 3 | PAGES 595-598 | 1989
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Body shrinkage in the sub-tropical euphausiid Nyctiphanes australis G.O. Sars
Zoology Department, University of Tasmania Box 252 C, GPO Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia 1Present address: Australian Antarctic Division, Channel Highway, Kingston, Tasmania 7050, Australia
Received on August 10, 1988; accepted on January 10, 1989 In a laboratory experiment designed to measure growth rates of the sub-tropical euphausiid Nyctiphanes australis, the majority of specimens exhibited negative growth.