Effects of estrogens during embryonal development on crowing in the domestic fowl

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 637-645

  Marx, Gunther ^a   Jurkevich, Aleksandr ^a,b   Grossmann, Roland ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Aromatase inhibitor; Call analysis; Crowing; Embryonic development; Estradiol; Fadrozole; Sexual differentiation

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTROGEN; FADROZOLE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FOWL; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 4344611163     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2004.05.010     Document Type: Article

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