Seasonal variation in the endocrine-testicular function of captive jaguars (Panthera onca)

Theriogenology

Volumn 61, Issue 7-8, 2004, Pages 1273-1281

  Morato, Ronaldo Gonçalves ^a,b   Verreschi, Ieda T N ^c   Guimarães, Marcelo A B V ^a,d   Cassaro, Kátia ^d   Pessuti, Cecilia ^e   Barnabe, Renato Campanarut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Associacao Conservacao Dos C   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d Fundacao Parque Zoologico de Sao Paulo   (Brazil)

^e Parque Zoologico Munic Quinzinho B   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Captive; Fecal androgens; Jaguar; Seasonality; Semen

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CARNIVORA; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FECES; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CARNIVORA; FECES; MALE; SEASONS; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

PANTHERA ONCA;

EID: 1542289921     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2003.07.011     Document Type: Article

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