Sex-reversed and normal turtles display similar sex steroid profiles

Journal of Experimental Zoology

Volumn 274, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 221-226

  Rhen, Turk ^a,b   Elf, Pamela K ^a   Fivtzzani, Albert J ^a   Lang, Jeffrey W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHELYDRIDAE; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 0000415450     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-010X(19960301)274:4<221::AID-JEZ2>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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