Behavioral evaluation of quinestrol as a sterilant in male Brandt's voles

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1024-1030

  Wang, Dawei ^a,b   Li, Ning ^a   Liu, Ming ^b   Huang, Baohuan ^a   Liu, Qi ^a   Liu, Xiaohui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Female preference; Fertility control; Lasiopodomys brandtii; Quinestrol; Social behavior

Indexed keywords

QUINESTROL; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT ANIMAL; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BIRTH CONTROL; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG USE; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GENITAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MALE STERILITY; MALE STERILIZATION; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; PALATABILITY; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SEMINAL VESICLE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TESTIS SIZE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THERAPY EFFECT; VOLE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; MALE; PREGNANCY; QUINESTROL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 80053050371     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.06.024     Document Type: Article

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