Elevated 11-ketotestosterone during paternal behavior in the Bluebanded goby (Lythrypnus dalli)

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 610-614

  Rodgers, E W ^a   Earley, R L ^a   Grober, M S ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

11 KT; Challenge hypothesis; Parental experience; Sex changing fish

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; ANDROGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EGG; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FISH; LIFE HISTORY; LYTHRYPNUS DALLI; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; LARVA; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PERCIFORMES; SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 33646151836     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2006.01.008     Document Type: Article

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