Can audio-visual or visual stimuli from a prospective mate stimulate a reproductive neuroendocrine response in sheep?

Animal

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 690-696

  Hawken, P A R ^a   Esmaili, T ^a   Scanlan, V ^a   Blache, D ^a   Martin, G B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Female effect; Luteinising hormone; Male effect; Non olfactory; Visual

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 64249117976     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731109003954     Document Type: Article

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