Hormonal correlates of environmentally induced metamorphosis in the Western spadefoot toad, Scaphiopus hammondii

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 326-336

  Denver, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HORMONE RELEASE; LIOTHYRONINE METABOLISM; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TADPOLE; THYROXINE METABOLISM; TOAD;

SCAPHIOPUS HAMMONDII;

EID: 0031840102     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1998.7082     Document Type: Article

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