Intersexual dominance, masculinized genitals and prenatal steroids: Comparative data from lemurid primates

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 141-144

  Ostner, Julia ^a,b   Heistermann, Michael ^a   Kappeler, Peter M ^a  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; PROGESTERONE; STEROID; TESTOSTERONE;

ENDOCRINOLOGY; MASCULINIZATION; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY;

ANDROGEN RELEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN RELEASE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; NONHUMAN; PROSIMIAN; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; STEROID METABOLISM; VIRILIZATION;

CROCUTA CROCUTA; EULEMUR; EULEMUR FULVUS; EULEMUR FULVUS RUFUS; LEMURIDAE; LEMURIFORMES; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 0242416938     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-003-0404-9     Document Type: Article

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