Hormonal correlates of parental behavior in yellow-eyed penguins (Megadyptes antipodes)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 357-362

  Setiawan, Alvin N ^a   Davis, Lloyd S ^a   Darby, John T ^a   Lokman, P Mark ^a   Young, Graham ^c   Blackberry, Margaret A ^b   Cannell, Belinda L ^b   Martin, Graeme B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Endocrinology; Prolactin; Reproduction; Seabirds; Sex steroids

Indexed keywords

PROLACTIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; INCUBATION TIME; MALE; NONHUMAN; PENGUIN; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STEROID BLOOD LEVEL;

MEGADYPTES ANTIPODES; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 33749548273     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.07.005     Document Type: Article

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