Neonatal androgen affects copulatory behavior in the female musk shrew

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 231-238

  Freeman, Louise M ^a   Arora, Tania ^a   Rissman, Emilie F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; GONADORELIN; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; EJACULATION; FEMALE; INSECTIVORE; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0032437121     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.1998.1472     Document Type: Article

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