Melatonin counteracts the stimulatory effects of blinding or exposure to red light on reproduction in the skipper frog Rana cyanophlyctis

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 90-95

  Joshi, B N ^a   Udaykumar, K ^a  

^a GULBARGA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FROG; LIGHT EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 0034005592     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1999.7443     Document Type: Article

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