Long-term entrainment of circannual reproductive and metabolic cycles by Northern and Southern Hemisphere photoperiods in woodchucks (Marmota monax)

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1008-1015

  Concannon, P ^a   Roberts, P ^a   Baldwin, B ^a   Tennant, B ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; REPRODUCTION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; WOODCHUCK;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; EATING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GEOGRAPHY; LIGHT; MALE; MARMOTA; METABOLISM; PHOTOPERIOD; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA; MARMOTA MONAX;

EID: 0030782434     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.5.1008     Document Type: Article

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