Behavioral insensitivity to testosterone: why and how does testosterone alter paternal and aggressive behavior in some avian species but not others?

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  2008

• Venue

  General and Comparative Endocrinology

• Publication date

  2008-07-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/j.ygcen.2008.05.009PMID 18579140
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