GnRH - a missing link between testosterone concentrations in yolk and plasma and its intergenerational effects

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Müller, Wendt ^a   Groothuis, Ton G G ^b   Goerlich, Vivian C ^a   Eens, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANARY; CLUTCH SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; EGG YOLK; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HATCHING; HORMONE RELEASE; LATENT PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EGG; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; CANARIES; EGG YOLK; EGGS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 79960863414     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022675     Document Type: Article

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