Endocrine correlates of reproductive status in breeding and nonbreeding wild female moustached tamarins

International Journal of Primatology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 919-937

  Löttker, Petra ^a,b   Huck, Maren ^a,c   Heymann, Eckhard W ^a   Heistermann, Michael ^d  

^a Abteilung Soziobiologie   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fecal steroids; Moustached tamarin; Post partum estrus; Reproductive monopolization; Saguinus mystax

Indexed keywords

HORMONE; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS;

ANTHROPOIDEA; PRIMATES; SAGUINUS; SAGUINUS IMPERATOR; SAGUINUS MYSTAX; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3543015027     PISSN: 01640291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:IJOP.0000029129.52481.e4     Document Type: Article

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