Sex steroids and weakly electric fish: A model system for activational mechanisms of hormone action

Sexual Differentiation of the Brain

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 95-112

  Zakon, Harold H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 85055196220     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/9780203710364     Document Type: Chapter

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