Novel approaches for the study of vertebrate steroid hormone receptors

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 527-534

  Kohno, Satomi ^a   Katsu, Yoshinao ^b   Iguchi, Taisen ^b   Guillette, Louis J ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 53549096238     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icn080     Document Type: Article

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