Androgen and the elaborate courtship behavior of a tropical lekking bird

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 62-68

  Fusani, Leonida ^a   Day, Lainy B ^a   Canoine, Virginie ^a   Reinemann, Dan ^a   Hernandez, Estefanía ^a   Schlinger, Barney A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen; Courtship; Flutamide; Lek; Sexual behavior; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANTIANDROGEN; FLUTAMIDE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASON; SEX HORMONE DETERMINATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TROPICS; WILD SPECIES;

ANIMALS; COURTSHIP; DRUG IMPLANTS; FEMALE; FLUTAMIDE; MALE; PASSERIFORMES; SEASONS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 33751501711     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2006.08.005     Document Type: Article

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