Annual reproductive patterns of male house shrews, Suncus murinus, in Central Taiwan

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 845-854

  Chang, Chun Hsiang ^a,c   Lin, Jun Yi ^a   Lin, Liang Kong ^a   Yu, John Yuh Lin ^b  

^a TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b ACADEMIA SINICA   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Androgen; House shrew; Reproduction; Spermatogenesis; Suncus murinus; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; SORICIDAE; SUNCUS MURINUS;

EID: 0001125426     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1383253     Document Type: Article

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