Exposure to naturally circulating androgens during foetal life incurs direct reproductive costs in female spotted hyenas, but is prerequisite for male mating

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1504, 2002, Pages 1981-1987

  Drea, C M ^a   Place, N J ^a   Weldele, M L ^a   Coscia, E M ^a   Licht, P ^a   Glickman, S E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen; Masculinization; Reproductive success; Sexual differentiation; Spotted hyena

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN;

REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CLITORIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; FEMALE; FETUS; GENITAL SYSTEM; MALE; MAMMAL; MATING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; VIRILIZATION;

ANIMALIA; CROCUTA CROCUTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 41049093004     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2109     Document Type: Article

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