Fecal hormone variation during prolonged social interaction in male Tscheskia triton

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 97, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 347-352

  Wang, Dawei ^a,b,c   Wang, Zhenlong ^a,b,d   Zhang, Jianxu ^a   Zhang, Jianjun ^e   Zhang, Zhibin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^d QUFU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF LABORATORY ANIMAL SCIENCE   (China)

Author keywords

Agonistic behaviors; Challenge hypothesis; Corticosterone; Dominate subordinate relationship; Physiological habituations; Subordination stress paradigm; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; HAMSTER; HORMONE ACTION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; FECES; HORMONES; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67349162662     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2009.03.002     Document Type: Article

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