Migratory stopover conditions affect the developmental state of male gonads in garden warblers (Sylvia borin)

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 312-318

  Bauchinger, Ulf ^a,b   Van't Hof, Thomas ^b,c   Biebach, Herbert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Takiaki Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Annual reproductive success; Breeding; Migratory performance; Reproduction; Stopover quality; Testicular recrudescence; Vernal migration

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; ANDROSTENEDIONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANDROSTENEDIONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIELD STUDY; FOOD DEPRIVATION; FOOD INTAKE; GARDEN WABLER; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; LABORATORY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; RESTLESSNESS; SIMULATION; SPRING; SYLVIA BORIN; TESTIS FUNCTION; TESTIS SIZE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TIME;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; EATING; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GEOGRAPHY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PERIODICITY; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SONGBIRDS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 45449083607     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2008.03.007     Document Type: Article

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