Courtship behavior and plasma levels of androgens and corticosterone in male marbled salamanders, ambystoma opacum (ambystomatidae)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 243-252

  Houck, Lynne D ^a   Mendonça, Mary T ^b   Lynch, Tracy K ^c   Scott, David E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; CORTICOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; COURTSHIP; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SALAMANDER;

AMBYSTOMA OPACUM;

EID: 0030298142     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1996.0167     Document Type: Article

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