Stress and dominance in a social fish

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 6463-6469

  Fox, Helen E ^a   White, Stephanie A ^b   Kao, Mimi H F ^b   Fernald, Russell D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cichlid; Cortisol; Dominance; Gonadotropin Releasing hormone; Plasticity; Reproduction; Stress; Teleost

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STRESS; TELEOST;

EID: 0030877687     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-16-06463.1997     Document Type: Article

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