Semen quantity and quality correlate with bank vole males' social status

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 279-285

  Kruczek, Małgorzata ^a   Styrna, Józefa ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bank vole; Social dominance; Sperm quality; Sperm quantity

Indexed keywords

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION; DOMINANCE; LABORATORY METHOD; MATING BEHAVIOR; PARAMETERIZATION; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RODENT; SOCIAL STATUS; SPERM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENITAL SYSTEM; MALE; MATURITY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL VESICLE; SOCIAL STATUS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOON TAIL; TESTIS; VOLE;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BODY WEIGHT; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; SEMEN; SEMINAL VESICLES; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MATURATION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 70350125766     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.07.009     Document Type: Article

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