Exposure to infant scent lowers serum testosterone in father common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)

Biology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 603-605

  Prudom, Shelley L ^a   Broz, Carrie Ann ^a   Schultz Darken, Nancy ^a   Ferris, Craig T ^b   Snowdon, Charles ^c   Ziegler, Toni Elaine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant scent; Olfactory; Parenting; Paternal care; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

OLFACTORY CUE; PATERNAL CARE; PRIMATE; SERUM; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; MARMOSET; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PATERNAL ATTITUDE; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

CALLITHRIX JACCHUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 58149234161     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0358     Document Type: Article

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