Effects of Testosterone Propionate upon the Sexual and Aggressive Behavior of Adult Male Marmosets ( Callithrix jacchus) Castrated as Neonates

• Published in: Hormones and behavior Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 216 - 230
• Main Author: Dixson, A.F.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier Inc 01.06.1993; Elsevier
• Subjects: Aggression - drug effects; Animals; Animals, Newborn; Behavioral psychophysiology; Biological and medical sciences; Callithrix; Callithrix jacchus; Copulation - drug effects; Ejaculation - drug effects; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Hormones and behavior; Male; Orchiectomy; Penile Erection - drug effects; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Sexual Behavior, Animal - drug effects; Sexual Maturation - drug effects; Testosterone - pharmacology; Testosterone; Vertebrata; Mammalia; Castration; Callithrix jacchus; Penis; Morphology; Sexual behavior; Primates; Simioidea; Sex steroid hormone; Aggressiveness

In New World monkeys of the family Callitrichidae (marmosets and tamarins), females frequently give birth to dizygotic twins. Twins share a placental circulation throughout fetal development and are hemopoietic chimeras. Despite this, there is no masculinization (freemartinism) in females which deve...