Behavioral actions of androgens and androgen receptor expression in the electrocommunication system of an electric fish, Eigenmannia virescens

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 30-38

  Dunlap, Kent D ^a   Zakon, Harold H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen; Eigenmannia; Electric fish; Electrocommunication; Steroid receptor

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROSTANOLONE; SILASTIC; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC FISH; ELECTRIC ORGAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE ACTION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0032143291     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.1998.1460     Document Type: Article

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