Interrelationship of day length and temperature on the control of gonadal development, body mass, and fat score in white-crowned sparrows, Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 242-255

  Wingfield, John C ^a   Hahn, Thomas P ^a   Wada, Masaru ^b   Astheimer, Lee B ^c   Schoech, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0029885675     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1996.0027     Document Type: Article

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