Seasonal changes in brain melatonin concentration in the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus): Towards an endocrine calendar

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 365-369

  Sokołowska, Ewa ^a   Kalamarz, Hanna ^a   Kulczykowska, Ewa ^a  

^a POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Brain; Endocrine calendar; Fish; Gonads; Hormone; Melatonin; Pineal organ; Reproduction; Seasonal rhythm; Three spined stickleback

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BREEDING; CALCULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GONAD; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PINEAL BODY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; SPAWNING; SPRING; TEMPERATURE;

GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 8844270183     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2004.10.001     Document Type: Article

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