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Maternal hormones as a tool to adjust offspring phenotype in avian species.

Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews - 1 Apr 2005

Groothuis Ton G G, Müller Wendt, von Engelhardt Nikolaus, Carere Claudio, Eising Corine

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Avian eggs contain substantial amounts of maternal hormones and so provide an excellent model to study hormone-mediated maternal effects. We review this new and rapidly evolving field, taking an ecological and evolutionary approach and focusing on effects and function of maternal androgens in offspring development. Manipulation of yolk levels of androgens within the physiological range indicates that maternal...

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PMID: 15811503
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2004.12.002

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