Long-term persistence of male copulatory behavior in castrated and photo-inhibited Siberian hamsters

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 214-221

  Park, Jin Ho ^a   Takasu, Nana ^a   Alvarez, Maria I ^a   Clark, Kathryn ^a   Aimaq, Rahim ^a   Zucker, Irving ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Castration; Male copulatory behavior; Photoperiod; Siberian hamster

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; EJACULATION; GONAD; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PHODOPUS; PHOTOINHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CASTRATION; CRICETINAE; EJACULATION; FEMALE; LIGHT; MALE; PHODOPUS; PHOTOPERIOD; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TESTIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 1842575877     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2003.11.001     Document Type: Article

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