Sexual maturity modifies the responsiveness of the pituitary-interrenal axis to stress in male rainbow trout

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 311-320

  Pottinger, T G ^a   Balm, P H M ^b   Pickering, A D ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0029004423     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1995.1073     Document Type: Article

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