Post-hatch oral estrogen in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata): Is infertility due to disrupted testes morphology or reduced copulatory behavior?

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-21

  Rochester, Johanna R ^a   Forstmeier, Wolfgang ^b   Millam, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Avian; Behavior; Endocrine disrupting chemicals; Extra pair copulation; Reproduction; Sexual disruption

Indexed keywords

CANOLA OIL; EDIBLE OIL; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL 3-BENZOATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; COITUS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; FINCH; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; POEPHILA CASTANOTIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS DISEASE; AGE; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BIRD DISEASE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NEWBORN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TESTIS;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIRD DISEASES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FINCHES; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PATERNITY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TESTIS;

EID: 77953912965     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.04.002     Document Type: Article

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