Sexual partner preference requires a functional aromatase (Cyp19) gene in male mice

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 158-171

  Bakker, J ^a   Honda, S ^b   Harada, N ^b   Balthazart, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AROMATIZATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COITUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION; ESTRUS; EXON; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUNCTION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HORMONE ACTION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MATING; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SMELLING; WILD TYPE;

EID: 0036425499     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.2002.1805     Document Type: Article

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