Testicular growth and locomotor activity of Siberian hamsters from short-day-responsive and short-day-nonresponsive lineages

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 789-799

  Stanfield, Kristina M ^a   Horton, Teresa H ^a,b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE;

GONADORELIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHODOPUS; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS SIZE; WEANING;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORGAN SIZE; PERIODICITY; PHODOPUS; PROLACTIN; TESTIS; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0029979362     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod54.4.789     Document Type: Article

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