Yolk testosterone, postnatal growth and song in male canaries

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 125-133

  Müller, Wendt ^a   Vergauwen, Jonas ^a   Eens, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bird song; Catch up growth; Developmental stress; Differential allocation; Early nutrition; Mate choice; Maternal effects; Sexual selection; Signal evolution

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANARY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG YOLK; FEMALE; GROWTH INHIBITION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; STRESS; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; CANARIES; EGG YOLK; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SURVIVAL; TESTOSTERONE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 43949145243     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2008.02.005     Document Type: Article

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