Corticosteroids as potential mechanism regulating variability in reproductive success in monogamous oldfield mice (Peromyscus polionotus)

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 86, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 96-102

  Good, Tatjana C ^a,b   Harris, Kendra K ^a   Ihunnah, Chioma A ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Cannibalism; Fecal corticosteroids; Gestation; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis (HPA); Infanticide; Offspring survival; Oxytocin (OT); Paternal behavior; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CRICETIDAE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INFANTICIDE; LACTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL; WEANING;

EID: 24944439922     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2005.06.030     Document Type: Article

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