Testosterone and tusks: Maturation and seasonal reproductive patterns of live, free-ranging male dugongs (Dugong dugon) in a subtropical population

Reproduction

Volumn 143, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 683-697

  Burgess, Elizabeth A ^a   Lanyon, Janet M ^a   Keeley, Tamara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Western Plains Zoo   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SIZE; DUGONG; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; JUVENILE; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEXUAL MATURITY; SEXUALITY; SPRING; TOOTH; TOOTH ERUPTION; TUSK;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; DUGONG; FECES; FEMALE; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL MATURATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE; TOOTH ERUPTION;

ANIMALIA; DUGONG DUGON; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84861518177     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-11-0434     Document Type: Article

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