Relationships between locomotor behavior, morphometric characters and thyroid hormone levels give evidence of stage-dependent mechanisms in European eel upstream migration

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 69-81

  Imbert, Hélène ^a   Arrowsmith, Rory ^b   Dufour, Sylvie ^b   Elie, Pierre ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Anguilla anguilla; Condition factor; Elver; Locomotor activity; Migration; Plasticity; T3; T4; Thyroid hormones; Yellow eel

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY HEIGHT; CLIMBING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EEL; ELVER; LIFE CYCLE; LOCOMOTION; MIGRATION; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EELS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MOTOR ACTIVITY; POPULATION DENSITY; SWIMMING; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 37449002034     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2007.06.011     Document Type: Article

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