Hormonal control of reproductive behaviour in the stickleback

Biology of the Three-Spined Stickleback

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 249-269

  Mayer, Ian ^a   Páll, Miklós ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

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