Seasonal and inter-individual variation in testosterone levels in badgers meles meles: Evidence for the existence of two endocrinological phenotypes

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 195, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 865-871

  Buesching, Christina Dagmar ^a   Heistermann, Michael ^b   Macdonald, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Badger; Meles meles; Reproductive strategies; Seasonality; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BITES AND STINGS; BLOOD; MALE; MUSTELIDAE; PARASITOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY; SCENT GLAND; SEASON; SECRETION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WOUND HEALING;

AGING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BITES AND STINGS; MALE; MUSTELIDAE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY; SCENT GLANDS; SEASONS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 69849088740     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-009-0465-0     Document Type: Article

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