Macaque mothers' preconception testosterone levels relate to dominance and to sex of offspring

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 893-899

  Grant, Valerie J ^a   Konečná, Martina ^b   Sonnweber, Ruth Sophie ^c   Irwin, R John ^a   Wallner, Bernard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Barbary macaque; Female testosterone; Good condition; Macaca sylvanus; Maternal dominance hypothesis; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FECES; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PRIMATE; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; TESTOSTERONE;

MACACA; MACACA SYLVANUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 80052783359     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.07.029     Document Type: Article

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