Hormonal and behavioural symmetries between the sexes in the Northern bald ibis

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 265-274

  Sorato, Enrico ^a   Kotrschal, Kurt ^a  

^a Konrad Lorenz Forschungsstelle Für Ethologie   (Austria)

Author keywords

Challenge hypothesis; Faecal androgen metabolites; Faecal corticosteroid metabolites; Geronticus eremita; Immatures; Pairing status; Seasonality; Sex roles; Social modulation of steroid hormones; Social stress

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CORTICOSTEROID; SEX HORMONE; STEROID HORMONE;

ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANDROGEN RELEASE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL SOCIETY; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOSTEROID RELEASE; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENDER; GERONTICUS EREMITA; HORMONE DETERMINATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MATING; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33646485965     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2005.11.020     Document Type: Article

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