Testicular growth and regression are not correlated With Dio2 expression in a wild male songbird, sturnus vulgaris, exposed to natural changes in photoperiod

Endocrinology

Volumn 154, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1813-1819

  Bentley, George E ^a   Tucker, Shanna ^a   Chou, Heather ^a   Hau, Michaela ^b   Perfito, Nicole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; GONADORELIN; IODOTHYRONINE DEIODINASE 2; IODOTHYRONINE DEIODINASE 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTICATION; GENETIC DRIFT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUAIL; SEASONAL VARIATION; STARLING; STURNUS VULGARIS; TESTIS SIZE;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; MALE; MOLTING; ORGAN SIZE; PHOTOPERIOD; SEASONS; SONGBIRDS; TESTIS;

EID: 84876773944     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2013-1093     Document Type: Article

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