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ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Reproductive trade-off of the copepod Acartia tonsa in a hypersaline estuary of the Southwestern Atlantic. Temporal variations in the morphology of eggs

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Pages 817-829 | Received 27 Jan 2016, Accepted 12 Jun 2016, Published online: 25 Aug 2016

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