The timing of thyroid-dependent programming in seasonally breeding male American tree sparrows (Spizella arborea)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 82-92

  Wilson, Fred E ^a   Reinert, Bryan D ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; THYROID DISEASE; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 0030199714     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1996.0096     Document Type: Article

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