Diversity of sexual dimorphism in electrocommunication signals and its androgen regulation in a genus of electric fish, Apteronotus

Journal of Comparative Physiology - A Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 77-86

  Dunlap, K D ^a   Thomas, P ^b   Zakon, H H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen; Apteronotus; Electric fish; Electrocommunication; Gymnotiformes

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; 11-KETOTESTOSTERONE; ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANOLONE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRIC FISH; ELECTRIC ORGAN; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANDROGENS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; ELECTRIC FISH; ELECTRIC ORGAN; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA; APTERONOTUS; APTERONOTUS ALBIFRONS; APTERONOTUS LEPTORHYNCHUS; GYMNOTIFORMES; NEMICHTHYS;

EID: 0032127394     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003590050236     Document Type: Article

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