Effects of divergent selection for yolk testosterone content on growth characteristics of Japanese quail

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 81-86

  Okuliarova, Monika ^a   Kostal, Lubor ^b   Zeman, Michal ^a,b  

^a Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Growth; Maternal effects; Selection; Testosterone; Thyroid hormones; Yolk androgens

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; TESTOSTERONE; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTURNIX JAPONICA; EGG YOLK; EMBRYO GROWTH; FEMALE; GROWTH RATE; HATCHING; HORMONAL REGULATION; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL GROWTH; QUAIL; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

COTURNIX JAPONICA; PHASIANIDAE;

EID: 79959786211     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2011.05.012     Document Type: Article

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