Short-day and low-temperature conditions promote reproductive maturation in the terrestrial slug, Lehmannia valentiana

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 80-83

  Udaka, Hiroko ^a   Numata, Hideharu ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gonad development; Lehmannia valentiana; Mollusk; Oogenesis; Photoperiodic response; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; LOW TEMPERATURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PHOTOPERIODICITY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL MATURATION;

GASTROPODA; LEHMANNIA VALENTIANA;

EID: 42749094587     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.03.007     Document Type: Article

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