Browsing by Subject "hormones"

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    • Experts hasten 'sex change' of lapu-lapu 

      Fernandez, Rudy A. (The Philippine Star, March 22, 1999, on page 14)
      Yes, it is a hermaphrodite, but of the "protogynous" kind. It does not have both the male and female sexual organs, but instead, the female becomes a male after two to six years. For years, the "protogynous hermaphrodism" ...

    • It's painful but it hastens prawn fertilization 

      Antonio, Tony (BulletinToday, July 8, 1985, on page 14)
      At the research station here of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (Seafdec), researchers may be considered 'sadists': They are inflicting painful injuries to female prawns by pinching or crushing their ...

    • Local scientists achieve breakthrough in milkfish, rabbitfish research 

      Fernandez, Rudy A. (The Philippine Star, July 11, 2000, on page B-2)
      The potentials of two sectors of the fisheries industry are expected to be considerably boosted soon with a breakthrough in aquaculture biotechnology research achieved by scientists of a Southeast Asian center based here. ...

    • Moon watching more fun at BFAR 

      Sotelo, Yolanda (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 12, 2012, on page A18)
      At the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources' (BFAR) demonstration center in this city, fishery specialists are moon watchers. They observe lunar phases not because they are romantics, but because the moon's appearance ...

    • New technology boosts revival of 'hito' industry 

      Fernandez, Rudy A. (The Philippine Star, September 10, 2000, on page 24)
      The native catfish (hito) industry, which appears headed for extinction, may yet be revived. Basis pf this optimistic outlook is the development of a technology for the mass production of Asian catfish (Clarias macrocephalus) ...

    • Philippine science as world science: The case of milkfish reproduction 

      Suarez, Raul K. (The Philippine Star, January 10, 2008, on page B-7)
      By the early 1980s, Clarissa Marte (also a UP faculty member) and Flor Lacanilao had both moved to the Aquaculture Department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) in Iloilo where they tried a ...

    • Seafdec-AQD pushes research on milkfish 

      Antonio, Tony (BulletinToday, January 8, 1985, on page 1)
      With the ablation technique for prawns already refined and widely used by fishfarmers, aquaculture scientists are now examining the thesis that a similar manipulation of the sex glands (gonad) of milkfish could speed up ...

    • US to decide whether genetically altered salmon is safe to consume 

      Reuters (BusinessWorld, September 2, 2010, on page S1/3)
      US health officials are set to rule on whether a faster-growing, genetically engineered fish is safe to eat in a decision that could deliver the first altered animal food to consumers’ dinner plates. The fish, made by Aqua ...