Endocrine Monitoring of Wild Dominant and Subordinate Female Leontopithecus rosalia

International Journal of Primatology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1281-1300

  French, Jeffrey A ^a   Bales, Karen L ^b,d   Baker, Andrew J ^c   Dietz, James M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c Philadelphia Zoo   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Fecal steroids; Ovarian cycles; Reproductive suppression; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

PRIMATE; REPRODUCTION; SEASONALITY; STEROID;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; GOSSYPIUM THURBERI; LEONTOPITHECUS ROSALIA; PANTHERA LEO; PRIMATES; SAGUINUS IMPERATOR; SAGUINUS OEDIPUS;

EID: 0347597744     PISSN: 01640291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:IJOP.0000005993.44897.ae     Document Type: Article

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