Sex steroids modulate changes in social and sexual preference during juvenile development in zebra finches

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 772-778

  Adkins Regan, Elizabeth ^a   Leung, Cary H ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

ATD; Estradiol; Flutamide; Juvenile development; Puberty; Sex steroid; Sexual partner preference; Social preference; Testosterone; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTA 1,4,6 TRIENE 3,17 DIONE; ANTIANDROGEN; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; FLUTAMIDE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; FINCH; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SILASTIC TUBE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

ANDROSTATRIENES; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANIMALS; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FINCHES; FLUTAMIDE; MALE; PAIR BOND; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 33750962940     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2006.07.003     Document Type: Article

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