Food availability and photoperiod affect reproductive development and maintenance in the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris)

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 41-49

  Edmonds, Kent E ^a,b   Riggs, Leah ^b   Stetson, Milton H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTHEAST   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass; Food restriction; Gonads; Photoperiod; Reproduction; Rice rat; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; FEMALE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD INTAKE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TESTIS WEIGHT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; UTERUS WEIGHT;

EID: 12244278254     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(02)00943-5     Document Type: Article

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