Intermediate-duration day lengths unmask reproductive responses to nonphotic environmental cues

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 296, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Paul, Matthew J ^a   Galang, Jerome ^b   Schwartz, William J ^a   Prendergast, Brian J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Food availability; Seasonality; Social interaction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAY LENGTH; DIET RESTRICTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GENITAL SYSTEM; GONADAL AGENESIS; HAMSTER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CRICETINAE; EATING; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; OVARY; PHODOPUS; PHOTOPERIOD; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TESTIS;

EID: 66149092643     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.91047.2008     Document Type: Article

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