Sex, seasonal, and stress-related variations in elasmobranch corticosterone concentrations

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 926-935

  Manire, Charles A ^a   Rasmussen, L E L ^b   Maruska, Karen P ^c   Tricas, Timothy C ^c  

^a CENTER FOR SHARK RESEARCH   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Elasmobranch; Reproduction; Shark; Stingray; Stress

Indexed keywords

1ALPHA HYDROXYCORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FISH; GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SHARK; SPERM PRESERVATION; STRESS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

CHONDRICHTHYES; DASYATIDAE; DASYATIS SABINA; ELASMOBRANCHII; PISCES; SPHYRNA TIBURO; SPHYRNIDAE;

EID: 36048980045     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2007.09.017     Document Type: Article

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