Follicular development and plasma yolk precursor dynamics through the laying cycle in the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris)

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 356-365

  Challenger, W O ^a   Williams, T D ^a   Christians, J K ^a   Vezina F ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VERY LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; VITELLOGENIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EGG LAYING; EGG YOLK; EUROPE; FEMALE; OVARY FOLLICLE; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EGG YOLK; EUROPE; FEMALE; LIPOPROTEINS, VLDL; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVIPOSITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SONGBIRDS; VITELLOGENINS;

EID: 0034992811     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/320427     Document Type: Article

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