The role of androgens in opportunistic breeding, tropical frogs

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 220-230

  Emerson, Sharon B ^a,b   Hess, David L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CORTICOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FROG; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 0030219827     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1996.0113     Document Type: Article

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