The Effect of Light and Temperature on Plasma Melatonin in Neotenic Tiger Salamanders (Ambystoma tigrinum)
- 1 September 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Herpetology
- Vol. 17 (3) , 228-234
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1563824
Abstract
Effects of varying illumination and temperature cycles on circulating melatonin (mel) in neotenic tiger salamanders were investigated in three experiments. In E...This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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