Individual, temporal, and population-level variations in circulating 11-ketotestosterone and 17β-estradiol concentrations in the oyster toadfish Opsanus tau

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 569-578

  Maruska, Karen P ^a,b   Korzan, Wayne J ^a,c   Mensinger, Allen F ^a,b  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

11 KT; Androgen; Estrogen; Hormone; Individual variation; Mariculture; Steroid cycling; Teleost

Indexed keywords

BATRACHOIDIDAE GEN. SP.; OPSANUS TAU; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 60449104241     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2009.01.002     Document Type: Article

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