Effect of restricted nutrition on timing of puberty in female Soay sheep

Journal of Reproduction and Fertility

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 31-37

  Adam, C L ^a   Findlay, P A ^a   Kyle, C E ^a   Young, P ^a  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED PUBERTY; DIET RESTRICTION; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; OVARIECTOMY; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0031881857     PISSN: 00224251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/jrf.0.1120031     Document Type: Article

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