Female canaries produce eggs with greater amounts of testosterone when exposed to preferred male song

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 64-70

  Gil, Diego ^a,d   Leboucher, Gérard ^a   Lacroix, André ^b   Cue, Roger ^c   Kreutzer, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

^b CENTRE D ETUDES BIOLOGIQUES DE CHIZÉ   (France)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cryptic female choice; Differential allocation; Serinus canaria; Song repertoire; Testosterone; Yolk androgens

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CANARY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; EGG; EGG YOLK; FEMALE; MALE; MUSIC; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 0347269082     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2003.08.005     Document Type: Article

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