Effect of dominance status on sex hormone levels in laboratory and wild-spawning male trout

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 333-341

  Cardwell, James R ^a   Sorensen, Peter W ^b   Van Der Kraak, Glen J ^c   Liley, N Robin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMON; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; STEROID BLOOD LEVEL; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TROUT;

EID: 0029878352     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1996.0036     Document Type: Article

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