Endocrine correlates of alternative phenotypes in the white-throated sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis)

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 762-771

  Spinney, L H ^a   Bentley, G E ^b   Hau, M ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative phenotype; Bird; DHEA; GnRH injection; Hormone; Luteinizing hormone; Relative plasticity hypothesis; Seasonality; Testis size; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PRASTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPARROW; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CLOACA; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPARROWS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 33750954797     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2006.06.034     Document Type: Article

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