Incubation temperature influences sex-steroid levels in juvenile red- eared slider turtles, Trachemys scripta, a species with temperature-dependent sex determination

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1275-1280

  Rhen, Turk ^a   Willingham, Emily ^a   Sakata, Jon T ^a   Crews, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; INCUBATION TIME; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SEX DETERMINATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STEROID BLOOD LEVEL; STEROIDOGENESIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TEMPERATURE; TESTOSTERONE; TURTLES;

EID: 0032719454     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod61.5.1275     Document Type: Article

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