Seasonal changes in gonadal activity and the effects of stress on reproductive hormones in the common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 359-372

  Mahmoud, I Y ^a   Licht, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GONAD FUNCTION; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; STRESS; TESTIS FUNCTION; TURTLE; VITELLOGENESIS;

EID: 0031239503     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1997.6944     Document Type: Article

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