Endocrine correlates of parental care in an antarctic winter breeding seabird, the emperor penguin, Aptenodytes forsteri

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 9-17

  Lormée, Hervé ^a   Jouventin, Pierre ^a   Chastel, Olivier ^a   Mauget, Robert ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; EGG LAYING; HORMONE DETERMINATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PENGUIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0033035694     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.1998.1491     Document Type: Article

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