Thyroid hormones in nestling great tits (Parus major)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 138-141

  Silverin, Bengt ^a   Rudas, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; FEMALE; GROWTH REGULATION; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID HORMONE RELEASE; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0030218164     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1996.0104     Document Type: Article

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