Annual cycles of steroid hormone production, gonad development, and reproductive behavior in the Atlantic stingray

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 209-225

  Tricas, Timothy C ^a   Maruska, Karen P ^a   Rasmussen, L E L ^b  

^a Florida Institute of Technology ^*  (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen; Dihydrotestosterone; Elasmobranch; Estradiol; Progesterone; Reproduction; Sexual behavior; Steroid; Stingray; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE; STEROID HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCANNUAL RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASMOBRANCHII; ESTUARY; FEMALE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS WEIGHT;

EID: 0033915176     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.2000.7466     Document Type: Article

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