Ambient temperature effects on photo induced gonadal cycles and hormonal secretion patterns in Great Tits from three different breeding latitudes

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 60-68

  Silverin, Bengt ^a   Wingfield, John ^b   Stokkan, Karl Arne ^c   Massa, Renato ^d   Järvinen, Antero ^e   Andersson, Nils Åke ^f   Lambrechts, Marcel ^g   Sorace, Alberto ^h   Blomqvist, Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^f Abisko Naturvetenskapliga Station   (Sweden)

^g CNRS   (France)

^h ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Birds; Global warming; Gonad; Great Tit; Latitude; LH; Parus; Reproduction; Temperature; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FINLAND; GONAD; GREAT TIT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GROWTH RATE; HORMONE RELEASE; ITALY; LATITUDE; LOW TEMPERATURE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS SIZE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; GONADS; LIGHT; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PASSERIFORMES; PHOTOPERIOD; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 44149110598     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2008.01.015     Document Type: Article

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