Prenatal social stress masculinizes the females' behaviour in guinea pigs

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 589-594

  Sachser, Norbert ^a   Kaiser, Sylvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Androgen; Body weight; Guinea pigs; Individual differences; Lactation; Masculinization; Organizational activational effects; Play; Pregnancy; Prenatal stress; Social behaviour; Social environment

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; LACTATION; NONHUMAN; PLAY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PROBLEM; VIRILIZATION;

EID: 0030220087     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(96)00068-6     Document Type: Article

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