Sex steroid hormones during the ovarian cycle of an all-female, parthenogenetic lizard and their correlation with pseudosexual behavior

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1985, Pages 144-153

  Moore, Michael C ^a,b   Whittier, Joan M ^a   Crews, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BEHAVIOR; COPULATION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; PARTHENOGENESIS; PRELIMINARY COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL; ESTRADIOL; ESTRUS; FEMALE; LIZARDS; OVARY; OVULATION; PARTHENOGENESIS; PROGESTERONE; SEX BEHAVIOR; SEX HORMONES; STANOLONE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0022394467     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0016-6480(85)90308-9     Document Type: Article

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