A potential role of male and female androgen in species recognition in a unisexual-bisexual mating complex

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 57, Issue 4-5, 2010, Pages 427-433

  Gabor, Caitlin R ^a   Grober, Matthew S ^b  

^a Texas State University   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

11 Ketotestosterone; Estradiol; Mate choice; Poecilia formosa; Poecilia latipinna; Reproductive isolation; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; ANDROGEN; ESTRADIOL; TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; FEMALE; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PARTHENOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; WATER SAMPLING;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; MALE; POECILIA; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 77950930286     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2010.01.012     Document Type: Article

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