Relationships of basal metabolic rate, relative testis size and cycle length of spermatogenesis in shrews (Mammalia, Soricidae)

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 431-439

  Parapanov, Roumen ^a   Nusslé, Sébastien ^a   Hausser, Jacques ^a   Vogel, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; CROCIDURA RUSSULA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MATING SYSTEM; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEOMYS FODIENS; NONHUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SHREW; SOREX ARANEUS; SOREX CORONATUS; SOREX MINUTUS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SUNCUS MURINUS; TESTIS SIZE;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; SHREWS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

CROCIDURA RUSSULA; MAMMALIA; NEOMYS FODIENS; SOREX ARANEUS; SOREX CORONATUS; SOREX MINUTUS; SORICIDAE; SUNCUS MURINUS;

EID: 40549142372     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD07207     Document Type: Article

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