The Annual Testicular Cycle of the Domestic Quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica)

Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 337-339

  Baraldi Artoni, S M B ^a   Orsi, A M ^a   Lamano Carvalho, T L ^a,b   Lopes, R A ^a,b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTURNIX COTURNIX; COTURNIX JAPONICA; JAPONICA; PHASIANIDAE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COTURNIX; CYTOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MEIOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COTURNIX; MALE; MEIOSIS; SEASONS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 0031298409     PISSN: 03402096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0264.1997.tb00145.x     Document Type: Article

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