Because settlement and sexual maturity are distinct biological events in the life history of this fish, the timing of these events will be clearly demonstrated in
allometric growth.
turnerae, marginal spines show negatively
allometric growth relative to body diameter through life, meaning that the spines are relatively longest in the smallest animals.
incanum was chosen partly for its accessibility, and partly because it is a normal that clearly displays the characteristic triphasic
allometric growth pattern.
This result conformed to the findings of Adedokun who reported positive
allometric growth in Hepsetus odoe in Ogbomoso reservoir [13].
verrucosa showed consistent negative
allometric growth, whereas the TW/SL (b = 3.
affinis was estimated to be lower than 3 indicating negatively
allometric growth.
b], converted to the linear form by means of natural logarithm transformation (Ln(y) = Ln(a) + b Ln(x), where y = dependent variables (CL, CPL, CPH, GL, AW), x = independent variable (CW), a = intercept on y axis, and b =
allometric growth coefficient.
In some crustacean species, morphometric relationships used to detect the size at sexual maturity by variations in the
allometric growth, also have been adjusted by linear models (Streissl & Hodl, 2002; Gerhart & Bert, 2008).
By truncating the application of our growth model at the approximate minimum size of fish caught by the Hawaii-based longline fishery (60-cm EFL), we eliminate the markedly
allometric growth effects that half-year-old and younger fish have on the ascending limb of the VBGF curve.
Vermeij (1993) examined allometry as a morphological descriptor of shape in gastropods, and noted that high
allometric growth rates in gastropods have been correlated with low overall growth rates, Green (2001) demonstrated higher rates of
allometric growth in Black Sea populations of R.
Directions of
allometric growth trajectories reflect the relative magnitudes of specific growth rates of the traits studied (Shea 1985; Blackstone 1987a).
In the present study the b value was lower in the LSS infected shrimps showed the negative
allometric growth than the normal shrimps where isometric growth, its strongly revealed that the growth of the shrimps affected by the LSS infection in the culture pond.
