No escape from mother's will: effects of maternal testosterone on offspring reproductive behaviour far into adulthood

In many animal species, mothers expose their embryos to maternal hormones. This provides a powerful pathway for affecting offspring phenotype and a potential mechanism for adaptive nongenomic inheritance. This has been studied extensively in birds because the embryo develops outside the mother'...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Animal behaviour 2016-07, Vol.117, p.135-144
Hauptverfasser:	Hsu, Bin-Yan, Dijkstra, Cor, Groothuis, Ton G.G.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	aggression Animal behavior Animal reproduction Behavioral biology Birds Columba livia courtship behaviour Genotype & phenotype long-term effects maternal effects maternal hormones prenatal testosterone exposure reproduction Testosterone
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