Stress, social behaviour, and secondary sexual traits in a male primate

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 720-728

  Setchell, Joanna M ^a   Smith, Tessa ^b   Wickings, E Jean ^c   Knapp, Leslie A ^d  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c Centre International de Recherches Médicales   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Badge of status; Condition dependent ornaments; Immunocompetence handicap hypothesis; Sexual selection; Sexual signal

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; STRESS HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES RICHNESS; STRESS;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; FECES; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MANDRILLUS; PRIMATES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 78349311679     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2010.07.004     Document Type: Article

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