Acute corticosterone administration during meiotic segregation stimulates females to produce more male offspring

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 292-298

  Pinson, Sara E ^a   Parr, Christina M ^a   Wilson, Jeanna L ^a   Navara, Kristen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

CHROMOSOME; EGG; FEMALE; HETEROGENEITY; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SEX HORMONE; SEX RATIO;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; OVULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX RATIO;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; OVULATION; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX RATIO;

AVES;

EID: 79955930449     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/659373     Document Type: Article

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