Testicular development during long-distance spring migration

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 295-305

  Bauchinger, Ulf ^a,b   Hof, Thomas Van't ^b,c   Biebach, Herbert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Takizaki Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gonadal recrudescence; Male reproductive organ; Passerines; Spermatogenesis; Spring arrival; Transition

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESERT; EGYPT; ETHIOPIA; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; LONG DISTANCE MIGRANT; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPRING; TANZANIA; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

AFRICA; ANDROSTENEDIONE; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; EUROPE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOSCOW; SEASONS; SONGBIRDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 33847613573     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2006.10.010     Document Type: Article

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