Coming of age: Steroid hormones of wild immature baboons (Papio cynocephalus)

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 83-100

  Gesquiere, Laurence R ^a   Altmann, Jeanne ^a,d,e   Khan, Memuna Z ^a   Couret, Jannelle ^a   Yu, Jennifer C ^a   Endres, Courtney S ^a   Lynch, Jessica W ^a   Ogola, Patrick ^b   Fox, Elizabeth A ^a   Alberts, Susan C ^c,d   Wango, Emmanuel O ^b,d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^e BROOKFIELD ZOO   (United States)

Author keywords

Infancy; Juvenile; Maternal rank; Papio; Sexual maturation; Steroids

Indexed keywords

AGE AT MATURITY; HORMONE; PRIMATE; SEXUAL MATURITY; WILD POPULATION;

PAPIO; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PRIMATES;

ESTROGEN; GLUCOCORTICOID; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FECES; FEMALE; MALE; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL MATURATION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ESTROGENS; FECES; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PROGESTERONE; SEXUAL MATURATION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 27744543967     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.20171     Document Type: Conference Paper

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