Insulins, leptin and feeding in a population of Peromyscus leucopus (white-footed mouse) with variable fertility

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 169-179

  White, Jordan T ^a,b   DeSanto, Cori L ^a   Gibbons, Connie ^a   Lardner, Casey K ^a   Panakos, Andrew ^a   Rais, Salehin ^a   Sharp, Kathy ^a   Sullivan, Shannon D ^a   Tidhar, Wendy ^a   Wright, Leanne ^a   Berrigan, David ^c   Heideman, Paul D ^a  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Calorie adjustment; Energetics; Food intake; Genetic variation; Insulin; Insulin like growth factor 1; Leptin; Natural population; Photoperiod; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; LEPTIN; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY BALANCE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOOD INTAKE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; TESTIS FUNCTION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; EATING; ENERGY METABOLISM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; EATING; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; INSULIN; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LEPTIN; MALE; PEROMYSCUS; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOPERIOD; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84901926322     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2014.02.006     Document Type: Review

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