Seasonal Biology: Avian Photoreception Goes Deep

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2009, Pages

  Wyse, Cathy ^a   Hazlerigg, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN; MELATONIN RECEPTOR; OPSIN; THYROTROPIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL; BIRD; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MAMMAL; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PINEAL BODY; PLATYPUS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS; MAMMALS; MELATONIN; OPSINS; PHOTOPERIOD; PINEAL GLAND; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; PLATYPUS; RECEPTORS, MELATONIN; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; THYROTROPIN;

AVES;

EID: 68849092511     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.07.036     Document Type: Short Survey

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