Food conditions affect yolk testosterone deposition but not incubation attendance

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 112-119

  Vergauwen, Jonas ^a   Goerlich, Vivian C ^a   Groothuis, Ton G G ^b   Eens, Marcel ^a   Müller, Wendt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Environmental effect; Hatching asynchrony; Incubation behaviour; Maternal investment; Nutritional stress; Yolk hormones

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANDROGEN METABOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CANARY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FOOD QUALITY; HATCHING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTOSTERONE METABOLISM; YOLK SAC;

EID: 84857123202     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2012.01.003     Document Type: Article

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