Determining the sex of Antarctic krill Euphausia superba using carapace measurements

A discriminant function using simple carapace measurements corretly determined the sex of 87% of male and 89% of female Antarctic krill Euphausia superba. This facilitated the use of sex-specific regression models which increased the accuracy of total length estimates

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Publication status:
Published
Author(s):
Authors: Reid, Keith, Measures, Jonathon

Date:
1 January, 1998
Journal/Source:
Polar Biology / 19
Page(s):
145-147
Link to published article:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s003000050226