Seasonal variation in brain GnRH in free-living breeding and photorefractory house finches (Carpodacus mexicanus)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 244-250

  Cho, Regina N ^a   Hahn, Thomas P ^a   MacDougall Shackleton, Scott ^a   Ball, Gregory F ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADOTROPIN;

ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; DOWN REGULATION; HORMONE RELEASE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION;

CARPODACUS MEXICANUS;

EID: 0031887117     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1997.7027     Document Type: Article

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