Biology of a critically endangered species, the Toki (Japanese Crested Ibis) Nipponia nippon

Ibis

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-11

  Wingfield, John C ^a   Ishii, Susumu ^b   Kikuchi, Motoshi ^b   Wakabayashi, Shuichi ^c   Sakai, Hidetsuga ^c   Yamaguchi, Nobuyuki ^a   Wada, Masaru ^d   Chikatsuji, Kouki ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Sado Ibis Preservation Centre   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BREEDING; BREEDING METHODS; CHINA; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GONADOTROPIN; HORMONAL THERAPY; JAPAN; MATURATION; MORPHOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURES; SEX HORMONE;

ENDANGERED SPECIES; HORMONE; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WADER;

CHINA; JAPAN;

COTURNIX JAPONICA; NIPPONIA NIPPON; THRESKIORNIS MELANOCEPHALUS;

EID: 0033973316     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.2000.tb07677.x     Document Type: Article

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