Testosterone stimulates mounting behavior and arginine vasotocin expression in the brain of both sexual and unisexual whiptail lizards

Sexual Development

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 77-84

  Hillsman, K D ^a   Sanderson, N S ^a   Crews, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Lizard; POA; Sexual behavior; Testosterone; Vasopressin; Vasotocin

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; FEMALE; GONADECTOMY; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RELEASE; LIZARD; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PARTHENOGENESIS; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; LIZARDS; MALE; PREOPTIC AREA; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TESTOSTERONE; VASOTOCIN;

ANIMALIA; ASPIDOSCELIS INORNATA; ASPIDOSCELIS UNIPARENS; SQUAMATA; TEIIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34248140777     PISSN: 16615425     EISSN: 16615433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000096241     Document Type: Article

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