Does testosterone influence activity budget in the male Greek tortoise (Testudo graeca graeca)?

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 181-189

  Sereau, Matthieu ^a   Lagarde, Frédéric ^a   Bonnet, Xavier ^a   El Mouden, El Hassan ^b   Slimani, Tahar ^b   Dubroca, Laurent ^a   Trouvé, Colette ^a   Dano, Stéphanie ^a   Lacroix, André ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Dissociated pattern; Hormonal implant; Reptiles; Sexual behavior; Testosterone; Tortoise

Indexed keywords

FLUTAMIDE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; FORAGING; HOME RANGE; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL MATURITY; SPRING; SUMMER; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TORTOISE; TRAVEL; WALKING; WINTER;

EID: 77952844912     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2010.03.002     Document Type: Article

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