Relationship between sexual maturity and serum and testis testosterone concentrations in short-finned pilot whales globicephala macrorhynchus

Fisheries Science

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 878-883

  Kita, Shoichi ^a   Yoshioka, Motoi ^a   Kashiwagi, Masaaki ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Density of reproductive cells; Serum; Short finned pilot whale; Testis; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

EID: 18244398293     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2331/fishsci.65.878     Document Type: Article

References (3)

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2. G. Desportes and A. Lacroix: Preliminary study of the male reproductive cycle in the pilot whale Globicephala melaena, off the Faroe Islands, using testes examinations and testosterone assay, Working paper submitted to the 39th IWC Scientific Committee, May, 1987, p. 15.
3. M. Yoshioka: Endocrinological studies on cetacean reproduction. Ph.D. thesis, the University of Tokyo 1991, 130p. (in Japanese).