Evolutionary change in the endocrinology of behavioral receptivity: Divergent roles for progesterone and prolactin within the genus Phodopus

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 30-38

  McMillan, H J ^a   Wynne Edwards, K E ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTROGEN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; OVULATION; PHODOPUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE RELEASE; PROLACTIN RELEASE; PUERPERIUM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; CRICETINAE; ESTRADIOL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MICE; OVULATION; PHODOPUS; PROESTRUS; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; RATS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; MESOCRICETUS AURATUS; PHODOPUS; PHODOPUS CAMPBELLI; PHODOPUS SUNGORUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0031799818     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod59.1.30     Document Type: Article

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