Pineal and Pituitary Involvement in the Photoperiodic Regulation of Body Weight, Coat Color and Testicular Size of the Djungarian Hamster, Phodopus Sungorus
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- 1 September 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Biology of Reproduction
- Vol. 39 (2) , 489-498
- https://doi.org/10.1095/biolreprod39.2.489
Abstract
Hypophysectomy of 40-day-old male hamsters kept under long photoperiods resulted in a change in coat color from the brownish summer coat to the whitiThis publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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