Steroid hormone interrelationships with territorial aggression in an arctic-breeding songbird, Gambel's white-crowned sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 212-221

  Meddle, Simone L ^a,b   Romero, L Michael ^a,c   Astheimer, Lee B ^a,d   Buttemer, William A ^a,d   Moore, Ignacio T ^a   Wingfield, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aggression; Corticosterone; Passerines; Song; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; STEROID HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; GAMBEL WHITE CROWNED SPARROW; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS; INJECTION; JUGULAR VEIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASON; SONGBIRD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRESS; TERRITORIALITY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE; ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRY GAMBELII;

EID: 0036422989     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.2002.1813     Document Type: Article

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