Mating sequence, dominance and paternity success in captive male tammar wallabies

Reproduction

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 123-130

  Hynes, Emily F ^a   Rudd, Carl D ^b   Temple Smith, Peter D ^a   Sofronidis, George ^a   Paris, Damien ^a   Shaw, Geoff ^a   Renfree, Marilyn B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Goonderoo   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING SUCCESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; ESTRUS; FEMALE; MALE; MARSUPIAL; MATING; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FERTILITY; MACROPODIDAE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

MACROPODIDAE; MACROPUS; MACROPUS EUGENII; METATHERIA;

EID: 22544434629     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.1.00624     Document Type: Article

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