Castration affects the emission of an ultrasonic vocalization in a nocturnal primate, the grey mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus)

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 693-697

  Zimmermann, E ^a  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mouse lemur; Olfactory input; Primates; Sexual advertisement; Testicular hormones; Ultrasonic vocalization

Indexed keywords

TESTIS PEPTIDE HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FITNESS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSIMIAN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; ULTRASOUND; VOCALIZATION;

MICROCEBUS MURINUS;

EID: 0030248456     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(96)00071-6     Document Type: Article

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