A single testosterone pulse rapidly reduces urinary marking behaviour in subordinate, but not dominant, white-footed mice

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 100, Issue , 2015, Pages 8-14

  Fuxjager, Matthew J ^a   Knaebe, Brenna ^b   Marler, Catherine A ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen; Communication; Dominant subordinate; Mating strategy; Peromyscus; Territoriality; Urinary scent marking

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DOMINANCE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MATE RECOGNITION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; RODENT; SCENT MARKING; SOCIAL STATUS; SUBPOPULATION; TERRITORIALITY; TESTOSTERONE; URINE;

ANIMALIA; MUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS;

EID: 84949116230     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.11.006     Document Type: Article

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