Male expulsion in cooperative Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus)

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 24-30

  Scheibler, Elke ^a   Weinandy, René ^a   Gattermann, Rolf ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aggression; Expulsion; Reproductive competition; Spermiogenesis

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE; WATER;

AGGRESSION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOOD; GERBIL; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS WEIGHT;

EID: 29144437847     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2005.08.037     Document Type: Article

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