Endocrine relationships between rank -related behavior and antler growth in deer

Frontiers in Bioscience - Elite

Volumn 4 E, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1111-1126

  Bartos, Ludek ^a   Bubenik, George A ^b   Kuzmova, Erika ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Antler casting; Antler cleaning; Antler growth; Antlers; Deer; Hierarchy; Rank; Review

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CYPROTERONE ACETATE; SOMATOMEDIN C; TESTOSTERONE;

AGGRESSION; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE GROWTH; BONE MASS; CASTRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CIRCULATION; DEER; HORN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MINERALIZATION; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; OSSIFICATION; RED DEER; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; WHITE TAILED DEER; ANIMAL; ENDOCRINE GLAND; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

CERVIDAE;

ANIMALS; ANTLERS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DEER; ENDOCRINE GLANDS;

EID: 84860865841     PISSN: 19450494     EISSN: 19450508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/e445     Document Type: Article

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