Female field voles with high testosterone and glucose levels produce male-biased litters

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1031-1039

  Helle, Samuli ^a   Laaksonen, Toni ^a   Adamsson, Annika ^a   Paranko, Jorma ^a   Huitu, Otso ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

age; body condition; corticosterone; field vole; life history; litter size; mammal; Microtus agrestis; sex allocation; sex biased mortality; stress

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; BODY CONDITION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GLUCOSE; LIFE HISTORY; LITTER SIZE; MORTALITY; RODENT; SERUM; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; TESTOSTERONE;

MAMMALIA; MICROTUS AGRESTIS; MURIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 39449097313     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.08.015     Document Type: Article

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