Effects of androgenic gland ablation on growth and reproductive parameters of Cherax quadricarinatus males (Parastacidae, Decapoda)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 211-218

  Tropea, Carolina ^a,b   Hermida, Gladys N ^a   López Greco, Laura S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

Androgenic gland; Cherax quadricarinatus; Growth; Reproductive system; Sexual characters

Indexed keywords

ANDROGENIC GLAND; ANIMAL TISSUE; APPENDICES MASCULINAE; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; CHELAE SIZE; CHERAX QUADRICARINATUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DEVELOPMENTAL, AGE AND GROWTH PARAMETERS; ENDOCRINE GLAND; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GONOPORE; GROWTH INCREMENT; GROWTH RATE; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED PATCH DIFFERENTIATION; SPERMATOPHORE; TESTIS; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 80054092367     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.08.023     Document Type: Article

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