Influence of mammalian growth hormone on rate of growth of fish

ABSTRACT THE influence of purified mammalian growth hormone on laboratory animals is well known. Pickford and Thompson1 have shown that it can influence the growth-rate of the marine teleost

_Fundulus heteroditus_. At the suggestion of Prof. F. G. Young, the influence of the hormone on hatchery-reared brown trout (_Salmo trutta_) has been investigated. Access through your

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