An annual cycle of steroid hormone concentrations and gonad development in the winter skate, Leucoraja ocellata, from the western Gulf of Maine

Marine Biology

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 845-853

  Sulikowski, J A ^a   Tsang, P C W ^a   Huntting Howell, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL WATER; ENDEMIC SPECIES; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE; STEROID;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MAINE; NEW HAMPSHIRE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

LEUCORAJA; LEUCORAJA OCELLATA;

EID: 2542496154     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-003-1264-8     Document Type: Article

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