The effects of age, season and geographic region on thyroid hormones in Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 90-98

  Myers, Matthew J ^a,b   Rea, Lorrie D ^c   Atkinson, Shannon ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b ALASKA SEALIFE CENTER   (United States)

^c ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Eumetopias jubatus; Marine mammals; Metabolism; Pinnipeds; Steller sea lions; Thyroid hormones; Thyroxine (T4); Triiodothyronine (T3)

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIET RESTRICTION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; GEOGRAPHY; LACTATION; LIFE HISTORY; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PREGNANCY; SEAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; EUMETOPIAS JUBATUS; OTARIIDAE;

EID: 33747204684     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.05.004     Document Type: Article

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