Effects of androgens on male sexual behavior and secondary sex characters in the explosively breeding spadefoot toad, Scaphiopus couchii

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 89-96

  Harvey, Loree' A ^a   Propper, Catherine R ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANOLONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TOAD;

EID: 0031080763     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.1997.1354     Document Type: Article

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