Escape from social suppression of sexual behavior and of ovulation in female common marmosets

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 807, Issue , 1997, Pages 567-570

  Saltzman, Wendy ^a   Schultz Darken, Nancy J ^a   Severin, Jessica M ^a,b   Abbott, David H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; MARMOSET; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; CALLITHRIX JACCHUS; MARMOSETS;

EID: 0030936078     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb51970.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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7. SALTZMAN, W., J. M. SEVERIN, N. J. SCHULTZ-DARKEN & D. H. ABBOTT. 1997. Behavioral and social correlates of escape from suppression of ovulation in female common marmosets housed with the natal family. Am. J. Primatol. 41: in press.