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SUBMITTER: Rubolini D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1679874 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rubolini Diego D Martinelli Roberta R von Engelhardt Nikolaus N Romano Maria M Groothuis Ton G G TG Fasola Mauro M Saino Nicola N
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20070101 1606
Maternal hormones in vertebrate eggs can mediate important forms of maternal effects. However, the function of hormone transfer to the eggs is still debated, especially because long-term fitness consequences have been little studied. We investigated the effect of prenatal exposure to physiologically elevated yolk testosterone (T) levels on reproduction of female pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) in captivity. We found that females hatching from T-injected eggs (T-females) had a lower egg-laying ra ...[more]