Prolactin and helping behaviour in the cooperatively breeding Florida scrub-jay, Aphelocoma c. coerulescens

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 445-456

  Schoech, Stephan J ^a   Mumme L, Ronald ^b   Wingfield ast C, John ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ALLEGHENY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APHELOCOMA; APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS COERULESCENS; AVES; GALLIFORMES; APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS;

COOPERATIVE BREEDING; FLORIDA SCRUB JAY; HELPING BEHAVIOUR; PROLACTIN;

EID: 0030222869     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0189     Document Type: Article

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