Monitoring of progesterone in captive female false killer whales, Pseudorca crassidens

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 323-332

  Atkinson, S ^a   Combelles, C ^b   Vincent, D ^b   Nachtigall, P ^a   Pawloski, J ^a   Breese, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c Sea Life Park Hawaii   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; LACRIMAL FLUID; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROGESTERONE RELEASE; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; WHALE;

EID: 0032877409     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1999.7319     Document Type: Article

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