Environmental stress as a developmental cue: Corticotropin-releasing hormone is a proximate mediator of adaptive phenotypic plasticity in amphibian metamorphosis

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 169-179

  Denver, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR;

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HYPOTHALAMUS; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; STRESS; TADPOLE;

EID: 0031128322     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.1997.1383     Document Type: Article

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