Effects of estradiol-17/β and progesterone on mating behavior in female lesser bushbabies (Galago moholi) in captivity

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 73-84

  Lipschitz, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE; SEX PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSIMIAN; VAGINA; ANIMAL; COPULATION; DRUG EFFECT; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SPERMATOZOON; VAGINA SMEAR;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GALAGO; MALE; OVARIECTOMY; PROGESTERONE; REPRODUCTION; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SPERMATOZOA; VAGINA; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 0031283409     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.1997.1405     Document Type: Article

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