Timing of puberty and synchronization of seasonal rhythms by simulated natural photoperiods in female Siberian hamsters

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 293, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Butler, Matthew P ^a,b   Trumbull, Justin J ^b   Turner, Kevin W ^b   Zucker, Irving ^a,b  

^a Department of Integrative Biology ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical day length; Phodopus sungorus; Seasonality; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUTUMN; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BODY GROWTH; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAY LENGTH; DELAYED PUBERTY; FEMALE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHASE TRANSITION; PHODOPUS; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIMULATION; SPRING; SUMMER;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; PHODOPUS; PHOTOPERIOD; PREGNANCY; SEASONS; SEXUAL MATURATION; VAGINA;

EID: 34447621732     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00216.2007     Document Type: Article

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