Endocrine correlates of sexual behavior in the Mohor gazelle (Gazella dama mhorr)

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 303-310

  Pickard, Amanda R ^a   Holt, William V ^a   Green, Daphne I ^a   Cano, Mar ^b   Abáigar, Teresa ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Estrogen; Fertility; Flehmen; Mating; Progestagen

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSORTATIVE MATING; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COURTSHIP; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MATING SYSTEM; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY CYCLE; OVARY FOLLICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 0242721408     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0018-506X(03)00155-7     Document Type: Article

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