Effects of artificial eggs on prolactin secretion, steroid levels, brood patch development, incubation onset and clutch size in the yellow-eyed penguin (Megadyptes antipodes)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 220-229

  Massaro, Melanie ^a   Setiawan, Alvin N ^a   Davis, Lloyd S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Brood patch development; Clutch size; Egg laying; Hormones; Incubation onset; Megadyptes antipodes; Parental behavior; Yellow eyed penguin

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; STEROID HORMONE;

ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CLUTCH SIZE; EGG; EGG LAYING; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; MALE; MEGADYPTES ANTIPODES; NONHUMAN; PATCH DYNAMICS; PENGUIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STEROID BLOOD LEVEL; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; YELLOW EYED PENGUIN;

EID: 33947149033     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2007.01.034     Document Type: Article

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