Correlation among thermosensitive period, estradiol response, and gonad differentiation in the sea turtle Lepidochelys olivacea

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 373-385

  Merchant Larios, Horacio ^a   Ruiz Ramirez, Salvador ^b   Moreno Mendoza, Norma ^a   Marmolejo Valencia, Alejandro ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOMÉDICAS   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HATCHING; HEAT SENSITIVITY; HORMONE RESPONSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX RATIO; STEROIDOGENESIS; TEMPERATURE; TURTLE;

EID: 0031238859     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1997.6946     Document Type: Article

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