Reproductive hormone profiles in captive male orangutans: Implications for understanding developmental arrest

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-32

  Maggioncalda, Anne N ^a   Sapolsky, Robert M ^a   Czekala, Nancy M ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Dihydrotestosterone; Gonadotropins; Socioendocrinology; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; STEROID HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEROID BLOOD LEVEL; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FERTILITY; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PONGO PYGMAEUS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0032908244     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199905)109:1<19::AID-AJPA3>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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