A longitudinal study of age-specific reproductive output and body condition among male rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 309-312

  Bercovitch, Fred B ^a,g   Widdig, Anja ^b,c   Trefilov, Andrea ^d   Kessler, Matt J ^a,h   Berard, John D ^a,i   Schmidtke, Jörg ^d   Nürnberg, Peter ^e   Krawczak, Michael ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^e MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^g ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; BODY CONDITION; MALE; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SURVIVORSHIP;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MACACA; MALE; MATING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTION; RHESUS MONKEY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY MASS INDEX; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0042745389     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-003-0436-1     Document Type: Article

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