Shield characteristics are testosterone-dependent in both male and female moorhens

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 126-134

  Eens, Marcel ^a   Van Duyse, Els ^a   Berghman, Luc ^b,c   Pinxten, Rianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gallinula chloropus; Immunocompetence; Moorhen; Secondary sexual characteristic; Sexual selection; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INFESTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0034072842     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.1999.1569     Document Type: Article

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