Androgen and behavior in the male three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus: II. Castration and 11-ketoandrostenedione effects on courtship and parental care during the nesting cycle

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 337-344

  Páll, Miklós K ^a   Mayer, Ian ^a   Borg, Bertil ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

11 ketotestosterone; Androgen treatment; Castration; Courtship; Male; Parental care; Three spined stickleback

Indexed keywords

11 KETOANDROSTENEDIONE; 11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; ANDROSTENEDIONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ADRENOSTERONE; ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; FISH; MALE; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPAWNING; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG IMPLANT; ORCHIECTOMY; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SMEGMAMORPHA;

ANDROGENS; ANDROSTENES; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COURTSHIP; DRUG IMPLANTS; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; ORCHIECTOMY; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; SMEGMAMORPHA;

EID: 0036453914     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.2002.1820     Document Type: Article

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