Serum relaxin concentrations and reproduction in male bonnethead sharks, Sphyrna tiburo

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 27-34

  Gelsleichter, James ^a   Steinetz, Bernard G ^b   Manire, Charles A ^a   Ange, Cristal ^c  

^a CENTER FOR SHARK RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW COLLEGE OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bonnethead sharks; Relaxin; Reproductive endocrinology; Sphyrna tiburo

Indexed keywords

RELAXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; ELASMOBRANCHII; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHESIS; IMMATURITY; INVERTEBRATE; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MATING; MATURATION; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHARK; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 0037846249     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6480(03)00030-3     Document Type: Article

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