Seasonal fluctuations in plasma testosterone levels and diurnal song activity in free-living male great tits

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-9

  Van Duyse, Els ^a   Pinxten, Rianne ^a   Eens, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Annual cycle; Great tit; Parus major; Seasonality; Sexual selection; Song; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BIRD; BODY CONSTITUTION; BREEDING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CIRCANNUAL RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; FEEDING; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MONOGAMY; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; SINGING; SPECIES; SUMMER; TERRITORIALITY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TIME; WINTER;

EID: 0043236142     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6480(03)00213-2     Document Type: Article

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