Variation in infanticide and parental behavior in male mice due to prior intrauterine proximity to female fetuses: Elimination by prenatal stress

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 1983, Pages 675-681

  vom Saal, Frederick S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Estrogen; Fetal development; Infanticide; Maternal stress; Parental behavior; Prenatal stress; Pup killing; Sexual differentiation; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CASTRATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; INFANTICIDE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PREGNANCY; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMAL; CANNIBALISM; CASTRATION; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; MURIDAE; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PREGNANCY; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; STRESS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0020523746     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(83)90162-2     Document Type: Article

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