Non-invasive Monitoring of Hormones: A Tool to Improve Reproduction in Captive Breeding of the Eurasian Lynx

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 43, Issue SUPPL.2, 2008, Pages 74-82

  Dehnhard, M ^a   Naidenko, S ^b   Frank, A ^a   Braun, B ^a   Goritz F ^a   Jewgenow, K ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CHEMISTRY; FECES; FEMALE; LYNX; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; URINE; ZOO ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; BREEDING; ESTROGENS; FECES; FEMALE; LYNX; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROGESTERONE; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; URINE;

EID: 58149197857     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2008.01145.x     Document Type: Article

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